perl and ports

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Jan 25 14:47:33 PST 2005


On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:41:56PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> ps who is the imake developer ?
> 
> Believe me i am going to mail every developer where perl comes in
> between me and the application :P

That would mostly just irritate developers and point out your own
ignorance.

I think you need to learn some more about how the ports collection
works before you embark upon this crusade - in particular, understand
how and why perl is used in the places it is, and whether it's
feasible to remove it (in most cases it is not).

Kris
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