Please remove Perl from ports

[Chris H]

Greetings Patrick, and thank you for the reply.
> Le Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:31:45 -0700 (PDT),
> "Chris H" <bsd-lists at 1command.com> a écrit :
>
>> Greetings,
>>  I currently manage several RELENG_8 servers. Recent changes in the
>> manner in which base && ports must be managed have resulted in more
>> than a fair amount of grief. the migration from cv(sup) --> subversion
>> required re-working long standing, carefully crafted management
>> procedures to be pitched to the trash, and re-invented. A recent
>> change to the Perl installation structure presents an entire new set
>> of headaches, rendering up(grading|dating) near, if not completely
>> impossible.
>
> that's not new. A perl upgrade was always painful.
> I suggest to use poudriere to build yours packages and pkgng to
> manage them. As poudriere produces a consistent set of packages,
> an upgrade is painless (pkg upgrade -f) and you can deploy them on
> several machines.
>
> In fact poudriere and pkg saved me :)
While that all sounds "dreamy". I don't think setting something
like that up on a *half* up(graded|dated) server, should even be
considered. Much less even possible. :(

Thanks again, for taking the time to respond.

--chris

>
> Regards.
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