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Date:      Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:29:53 +0800 (SGT)
From:      Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
Cc:        freebsd hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Discussing ideas or wish list
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Yes, I can install lang/perl5.12.
But in that case, I can't install other perl /p5 pre-build packages (which depends on Perl 5.14) provided by FreeBSD, due to dependency problem.


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 From: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
To: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk> 
Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> 
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Discussing ideas or wish list
 

On 8/9/2013 9:34 AM, Patrick Dung wrote:
> Let share an experience for my case. I have installed OTRS (a great
> ticketing system) in FreeBSD 9.0. The Perl version at that time is
> 5.12. For me, upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 take some time because the
> Perl version at that time is 5.14. OTRS depends on lots of Perl/p5
> modules/packages. This is not scalable if I need to upgrade multiple
> servers.

Perl is not in the base system, so why is this an issue?  If you need 
5.12 on 9.1, install lang/perl5.12.


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