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To: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser)
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Subject: Re: oops sorry, and a query about perl 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:40:55 GMT."
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 03:15:59 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Now for what I really wanted to ask.  How can I get the stable
> tree to not install perl?  We've got version 5 on this system
> and it keeps getting stomped on by the version 4 contained in
> stable.

Not quite an answer, but a question - why are you installing
perl5 in /usr/bin?  If you use the ports version, it goes into
/usr/local/bin and a generation of FreeBSD perl programmers have
sort of made that into a full convention for perl4 vs perl5.

					Jordan