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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:51:05 +0200
From:      Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
To:        Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Perl en /etc/make.conf
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have a FreeBSD 10-Beta 3 server installed to test the new pkgng and other
> things.
> On all the systems where i  installed perl there was always a line in
> /etc/make.conf like the following
>
> # added by use.perl 2013-09-27 14:38:36
> PERL_VERSION=5.14.4
>
>
> I just installed  perl5-5.16.3_2 and i do not see that line.
> Is this line not needed anymore or did i do something wrong.
>
> regards
> Johan
>
>

As far as I know it was removed because it is not used when installing
perl from a binary package. The new mechanism to select default
versions for various ports is the DEFAULT_VERSIONS make.conf variable
that only applies when building ports.



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