Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:48:27 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! Message-ID: <20070704184827.GB43873@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20070704122601.2f860027@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <200707031344.l63DiEbo098703@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <20070703163610.GA6012@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <468b072c.U1AQhNvKe3aLmLhT%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20070704031716.GB39459@demeter.hydra> <18059.5849.930990.765261@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20070704040550.GC39459@demeter.hydra> <20070704122601.2f860027@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:26:01PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:05:50 -0600 > Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > > > Chad Perrin writes: > > > > > > > Isn't Perl part of the base system these days? > > > > > > Perl has not been part of the base system for several years > > > and was deprecated for some time before that. > > > > Is it part of the default install without being part of the base > > system, then? I don't recall needing to install it after system > > install on this laptop (using FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE). > > A huge number of ports and packages have it as a dependency. Yes, of course -- there's a great deal of Perl-based software on various unices that is written in Perl. I seem to recall having Perl available before I had most of my usual software installed on this system, however. In retrospect, though, I think something associated with Portupgrade uses Perl -- and I would have had that installed by the time I recall having Perl available -- so that's probably the "culprit" in this case. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
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