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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Jaime Kikpole wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>> The remaining port (lang/perl5.8) hasn't been modified in 7 months, and
>> I believe it may well be deprecated and removed fairly soon.
> 
> Good to know.  What version comes with FreeBSD if you don't install a port of Perl?

None.

> Is there some way to just "yank" the installed port and revert to the default installed version?

You can uninstall the port, yes.  If you do, there wouldn't be any perl installed.

Regards,
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-Chuck