Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install)

[Forrest Aldrich]

Thanks Kris.  Does the basic installation of 5.6 have any dependency 
modules?  I hear there is a way with CPAN to port those over to a new 
perl installation.



Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
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>>I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed and it places Perl-5.6 on the system.
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>>It's not clear to me whether it's safe to pkg_delete this in favor of
>>Perl-5.8 (which I want to install).   I tried searching the list archive
>>and didn't find anything (yet).
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>>Anyone accomplish this?
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>Yes, this is safe.  You just have to reinstall any perl modules that
>were built against perl 5.6, since they will stop working when you
>remove perl 5.6.
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>Kris
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