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Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:59:49 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: __FreeBSD_version bump for loss of perl
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:52:45PM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote:
> On 05/16/02 17:46, "Maxime Henrion" <mux@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I agree that a __FreeBSD_version bump is appropriate, but why not always
> > simply use sed for this ?
> 
> Because not everyone using the ports system has the in-place editing feature
> of sed that was recently added, and thus it needs to be conditional on
> ${OSVERSION}.

Nor maybe do we want to use them.  If I want to add Perl as a build
depends, that is my perorative as a maintainer.

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