Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:20:16 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: perl and ports Message-ID: <200501242120.16504.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20050125005449.GA41074@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <ef60af0905012416425fdc0a7d@mail.gmail.com> <20050125005449.GA41074@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Monday 24 January 2005 06:54 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:42:24AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > Do we still need perl to make use of ports > > > > Just asking because it bugs me. I never use it and it just takes up > > space and it is a security risc :P I want it gone :) > > Only if you want to do certain things like 'make index', but not for > general use (this has been the case for years). > > Kris And if you want to install packages using the ports tree. If you want to depend on installing packages only, ok. Of course, you have to wait for them to be built. I just ran pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5, too many to count by hand. Don -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm I'm not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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