perl and ports

[Gert Cuykens]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:33:25 -0600, Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
> --On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 09:26:07 AM +0100 Gert Cuykens
> <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > this is what i dont understand only need perl to compile it ?
> >
> > so some pakeges need perl to compile and some dont ? why not make them
> > all perl independent ?
> 
> This shouldn't be too hard to do.  All you have to do is contact the
> developers for the 40,000+ different ports and ask them to please stop
> using perl.  Once they all comply, the FreeBSD port maintainers can
> eliminate perl.  (Course I'll be pissed, because I use perl a lot.)
> 
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
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I will start with the cvsup developer :P