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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:07:15 -0400
From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net>
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Subject: Perl voodoo in ports/UPDATING
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In regard to the new Perl version, ports/UPDATING has of course been
changed with some instructions on how to proceed. It includes some real
voodoo which really shows the beauty of Unix. But wouldn't 'portupgrade
-rf perl\*5.8.4' be much simpler? And if the user has a threaded Perl
installed, the command listed in UPDATING won't work.


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