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Ade Lovett wrote:

>> is senseless and detrimental.
> 
> Ok, let's slow down a bit here.  This is obviously an issue that is 
> likely to cause much consternation (I'm specifically avoiding use of the 
> "b-word" here :)

Ok, maybe I was too brusque. But trivial ports updating to the latest 
state is _so_ painful and annoying even via portupgrade.

> Having recently done the work to extract GNU autotools from bsd.port.mk 
> into its own standalone file, and being a big consumer of perl ports 
> myself, I'm certainly willing to offer my services in getting a 
> bsd.perl.mk set up.

I'm quite impatient for this .mk splitting!

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Sergey Skvortsov
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