From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 4:26:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682E737B40D for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 04:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11158 invoked from network); 9 May 2002 11:26:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 May 2002 11:26:10 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g49BQ9F37470; Thu, 9 May 2002 07:26:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200205090931.g499VgjV094375@grimreaper.grondar.org> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 07:26:07 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mark Murray Subject: RE: Resolution (Was: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-May-2002 Mark Murray wrote: > 3) Fix the ports system such that USE_PERL makes an appropriate > dependancy on the perl port, and does not assume perl in the > base OS. What I would do is wait to add these until 4) is done. Since this only affects current the ports developers can manually install perl if needed while doing the fixup. Not a super strong feeling though. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message