On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:00:54PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:33:25 -0600, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 09:26:07 AM +0100 Gert Cuykens > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > 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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