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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 12:32:27 -0400
From:      Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        GB Clark <gclarkii@vsservices.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20020508163227.GF85290@electricjellyfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <200205081608.g48G8W5p029919@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:32AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:55:01AM -0500, GB Clark wrote:
> 
> > > So you want to take out perl and replace it with ruby?  The portupgrade
> > > package is a ruby script, not C.
> > 
> > i think he meant that we should remove it, and if people want the
> > functionality they should be directed to install the portupgrade
> > package from ports.  it works much better than pkg_update anyway, i
> > even recall seeing a post from the original author of pkg_update
> > saying just that a while back.
> 
> I don't know if the author of pkg_update has ever said that, but the
> author of pkg_version (yours truly) has said something like this on
> multiple occasions (with respect to pkg_version's -c option).

that may have been what i was thinking of.  if so, appologies to the
author of pkg_update for misquoting him.

-garrett

-- 
garrett rooney                    Remember, any design flaw you're 
rooneg@electricjellyfish.net      sufficiently snide about becomes  
http://electricjellyfish.net/     a feature.       -- Dan Sugalski

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