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Subject: Re: ELF Xfree86?
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Jordan K. Hubbard, On 15-Sep-98 you 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?

Maybe because make release uses this port and blows up when it fails to
builtd the Perl5 port?

>  One assumes that it will still stick around in the tree for those
>  2.2.x users of the -current ports collection (if the system one is
>  enabled by an option in bsd.port.mk, as it is, then that switch can be
>  on/off as necessary in the different branches).
>  
>  - Jordan



Sincerely Yours,                 Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
                                             770.265.7340
Simon Shapiro

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