From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 28 03:14:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA13770 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:14:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA13765 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca7-177.ix.netcom.com [209.109.235.177]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA28321; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.8.8/8.6.9) id DAA26684; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809281014.DAA26684@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> To: tobez@plab.ku.dk CC: croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, tobez@plab.ku.dk In-reply-to: <199809271416.QAA27506@lion.plab.ku.dk> (message from Anton Berezin on Sun, 27 Sep 1998 16:16:56 +0200 (CEST)) Subject: Re: Why p5- ports are good From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Anton Berezin * The striking example I can mention was when I installed a * port completely unrelated to perl (sorry, don't remember * which one) which happened to use perl in order to produce * some docs of itself. That time I already had 5.005_02 installed * from perl distribution. To my horror, the port happily began * to install 5.004_04; all that was actually needed was _some_ * perl5, and the port failed to recognize I already have one. That's because you were using the port that was verified (by us) for 5.004_04, or an old bsd.port.mk. Either way, it's a pilot error. :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message