perl and ports

[Gert Cuykens]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:25:10 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 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
> 

me getting confused :)

Are there 2 perl thingies ? a base and a other one ? I would like to
have no perl at all and be abel to do make install in the ports tree ?