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From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net>
To: Alex Drummond <alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Perl?
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in message <200210221406.35774.alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>,
wrote Alex Drummond thusly...
>
> ...if you install the perl5.8 port, the executable is called
> perl5.8.0 so as not to overwrite the perl which comes with
> FreeBSD).

by default, the port perl is installed in /usr/local/bin (unless you
change it) & system perl in /usr/bin.  so it's misleading to say
that perl5.8.0 is named such not to overwrite existing version.

perl5.8.0 would be a symlink to "perl" in /usr/local/bin.  the port
may additionally run (or advice one to run) "use.perl" program to
create symbolic links from/to /usr/local/bin to/from /usr/bin for
some of the perl related software.

  - parv

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