Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:47:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: perl and ports Message-ID: <20050125194736.GD76109@xor.obsecurity.org> 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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--llIrKcgUOe3dCx0c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:00:54PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:33:25 -0600, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wro= te: > > --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 ? > >=20 > > 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.) > >=20 > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > > Adjunct Information Security Officer > > The University of Texas at Dallas > > AVIEN Founding Member > > http://www.utdallas.edu >=20 > I will start with the cvsup developer :P cvsup itself doesn't require perl to build (as you can see from the lack of mention in the makefile), it's one of the other build dependencies. Kris --llIrKcgUOe3dCx0c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB9qJYWry0BWjoQKURAgoAAKCHdmq5z9ONiI6qbDSNGJ3agICskQCgnDmw Wkeh2sv4mjfVm1kza1dM3sY= =z201 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --llIrKcgUOe3dCx0c--
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