Date: 1 Nov 2019 12:52:18 -0400 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: ipluta@wp.pl Subject: Re: Help wanted: Install of p5-JSON-Parse removes Perl ??? Message-ID: <20191101165219.358AFDC250E@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <0d1e31bd-bd45-090f-9fc7-2f3efa3013f7@wp.pl>
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In article <0d1e31bd-bd45-090f-9fc7-2f3efa3013f7@wp.pl> you write: >W dniu 2019-11-01 o 04:07, Ronald F. Guilmette pisze: >> I have work >> to do and now my Perl interpreter has disappeared. Was it somehow my >> fault? Was I bad? I have tried to lead a good life, up until now anyway. >> I have been kind to animals and small children. So what have I done wrong >> that has caused my Perl interpreter to be disappeared on me for no >> apparently good reason? > >If you really depend on Perl, don't use the "system" one, that is likely to be messed up with the >pkg dependency hell. > >Use your own perl. Consider https://perlbrew.pl/ for managing it. I would not recommend that. In my experience, so long as you do a pkg upgrade every few weeks your perl packages will be fine. A lot of stuff in the ports tree depends on perl and they have a strong incentive to be sure that it works. If you've installed perl modules through CPAN rather than through ports, it's up to you to remember and reinstall when the version of perl changes but there's not much you can do about that. I have about 200 modules installed as packages and one or two from CPAN. R's, John
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