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Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 09:32:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
To: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Resolution (Was: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD)
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On Thu, 9 May 2002, David O'Brien wrote:

> [bogus From: address, because people cannot be bothered to respect Reply-To:]
> 
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:31:42AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > 4) Fix ports that do things like "perl -spi -e '<script>' <files>"
> >    to use whatever comes out of the current "sed -[Ii]" discussion
> >    instead.
> 
> Why??  If someone wants to use perl in building a port, let them.
> Add a BUILD_DEPENDS.

Seems like an awful amount of installation if all you are going to be 
doing with it is something that can be easily acheived by sed (which is 
probably the biggest case).

It's like having your port depend on teTex just to install extra 
documentation. It's a overkill for a small gain.

-gordon


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