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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2002 10:39:58 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Resolution (Was: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <20020509103958.B12939@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205090929590.558-100000@smtp.gnf.org>; from gordont@gnf.org on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:32:10AM -0700
References:  <20020509084650.B11106@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205090929590.558-100000@smtp.gnf.org>

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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:32:10AM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > 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).

Please don't be telling a maintainer how to do his job.  If you want to
push a direction of a port, become its maintainer.

(I dare say even 90% of Perl haters will have it installed anyway, so
using is not such a big deal)

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