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From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>, Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>,
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Subject: Re: REINPLACE
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Trevor Johnson wrote:
> 
> Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> > [...] You've determined that the problem is, "How do
> > we make a drop in replacement for perl -i?" Unfortunately, we've already
> > shown that this isn't possible. So, I'm trying to simplify the problem
> > by defining it as, "How do we accomplish the same result as perl -i as
> > simply as possible for the majority of ports, and then handle the
> > special cases seperately?" I think my problem is a lot easier to solve,
> > and my solution is more likely to succeed.
> 
> Well, Perl tends to give similar results to Perl.  :-)  Perl is still
> available in -CURRENT, via ports/lang/perl5.  Having to install it to work
> with certain ports is IMO no great tragedy, especially when it's under
> package management. 

	Even if this weren't ludicrous on its face, I daresay it's a safe
assumption that the majority of our userbase would disagree with you.

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