perl and ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:20:16PM -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2005 06:54 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:42:24AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> > > Do we still need perl to make use of ports
> > >
> > > Just asking because it bugs me. I never use it and it just takes up
> > > space and it is a security risc :P I want it gone :)
> >
> > Only if you want to do certain things like 'make index', but not for
> > general use (this has been the case for years).
> >
> > Kris
> 
> And if you want to install packages using the ports tree.

Eh?

> depend on installing packages only, ok. Of course, you have to wait for 
> them to be built.
> 
> I just ran pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5, too many to count by hand.

Well, yeah, but that's because you installed perl 5.8.5 or something
that depends on it.  If you use 4.x most such ports will be happy with
the base system version of perl, and if you don't use 4.x then ports
that don't require perl won't install it.

Kris
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