Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed and it places Perl-5.6 on the system.
>
> 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).
> 
> Anyone accomplish this?

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.

Kris
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