Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:56:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Alok K.Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org> Subject: Re: ELF Xfree86? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809151050310.16487-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <14026.905861810@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > How about the perl5 port? > > > Deprecated for current. > > Meaning what? > > Uhh. Meaning deprecated? :) > > To turn the question around, why would you personally want perl5 as a > port when it was already part of -current? Because Perl 5.005_51 is already out? (Granted its a development release). One hopes that the new version of Perl5 in the tree will be updated to track official perl releases better than the old version. I, of course, am with the people who think that perl should not be in the tree in the first place. Make it a mandatory package to install or something. [ ] Perl System utilities (will also install Perl) [ ] Tcl/Tk System utilities (will also install Tcl/Tk) etc... But that would make far too much sense (not to mention add more catagories to the distfiles. -- | Matthew N. Dodd |This space | '78 Datsun 280Z | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net |is for rent| '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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