perl and ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:00:54PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> 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
> > AVIEN Founding Member
> > http://www.utdallas.edu
> 
> I will start with the cvsup developer :P

cvsup itself doesn't require perl to build (as you can see from the
lack of mention in the makefile), it's one of the other build
dependencies.

Kris
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