Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:45:34 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: Warren <shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Subject: Re: perl and ports Message-ID: <20050125194533.GA35513@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <ef60af090501251100472d6fb6@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af0905012416425fdc0a7d@mail.gmail.com> <200501242315.12888.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> <ef60af090501242128e57e92d@mail.gmail.com> <200501251530.06424.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <20050125055301.GB16896@xor.obsecurity.org> <ef60af0905012500265eb38b66@mail.gmail.com> <EB3282A396FFCC78382D2E81@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <ef60af090501251100472d6fb6@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 25), Gert Cuykens said: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:33:25 -0600, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 09:26:07 AM +0100 Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: > > > this is what i dont understand only need perl to compile it ? > > > > > > so some pakeges need perl to compile and some dont ? why not make > > > them all perl independent ? > > > > This shouldn't be too hard to do. All you have to do is contact > > the developers for the 40,000+ different ports and ask them to > > please stop using perl. Once they all comply, the FreeBSD port > > maintainers can eliminate perl. (Course I'll be pissed, because I > > use perl a lot.) > > I will start with the cvsup developer :P Note that cvsup doesn't depend on perl itself; it does default to having a GUI, which pulls in a dependency on the X11 libs, which pulls in imake, which depends on perl. Either installing the imake package via pkg-add, or building the cvsup-without-gui port, will let you install cvsup without perl. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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