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Subject: Re: needing install OpenOffice.org without messing up perl
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Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> writes:

>      What is the best way to install OpenOffice.org from a package without
> the installation trying to reinstall perl5.8 over perl5.10?

Get a package that includes them?

Short of that, you would have to install the package without
dependencies.  There is a pkg_add option to do this, but the 
trick comes afterwards, when you have to fix it up to use the 
perl you actually have (perl-after-upgrade(1) might be able to
handle this, but you have no guarantees.).  Or you could just 
install both perl versions; they should be able to coexist 
just fine.