Spadge wrote: > "If you want such packages to remain operational, you will have to > reinstall then by hand or via portupgrade." That's what it said in UPDATING for the Perl 5.8.8 update. The 5.8.7 update said to use perl-after-upgrade. But if you get the latest UPDATING, you'll see that it now says to use perl-after-upgrade for 5.8.8 as well. Frustrating.