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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:14:06 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5 MAINTAIN [...] 
Message-ID:  <200204301514.g3UFE64G019541@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>  of "Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:30:40 %2B0200." <41785.1020177040@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> 

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> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:19:53 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 
> > > Mostly upheld by a small modification to the Apache ports.
> > 
> > And if I don't use Apache ?
> 
> Then you'll probably cotton on pretty smartly. :-)
> 
> You're arguing a valid point, but you need to consider the background
> for the change -- the staleness of the CGI.pm module in the perl
> distribution has caused trouble for lots of people in the past, so this
> change does _some_ good.
> 
> Just not the good you want. :-)
> 
> A near-perfect alternative solution is for someone with LOADS of free
> time onhand to commit to keeping the perl modules on HEAD and RELENG_4
> well-sync'd with distribution versions.  This is not a part time job, so
> in the meantime, this change will make some people happy.

Is it not possible to switch @INC around in the base system so that 
/usr/local/ appears first ?  Assuming there are no problems with that, 
it'd make everyone happy (then we can figure out how to fix the 
conflicts between CGI.pm and p5-CGI-modules!!!).

Just my (probably useless) $0.02.

-- 
Brian <brian@freebsd-services.com>                <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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