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Date:      Thu, 09 May 2002 17:34:15 +0200 (METDST)
From:      Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org>
To:        Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Subject:   Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020509173415.riccardo@torrini.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205090821380.98498-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu>

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On 09-May-2002 (15:24:57/GMT) Joseph Scott wrote:

> This may sound like an extremely silly little idea, but is there
> any reason why we can't just replace /usr/bin/perl with a shell
> script that prints out something like :

> Perl is no longer comes with the base install of FreeBSD, please
> install it from your ports collection, in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.

Or even better that check for existence of port, when true exec
.../local/bin/perl, when false print this message (like wish ?)


Riccardo.

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