Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Quoting Sam Carleton (scarleton-netbsdusers@miltonstreet.com):
> 
>>first off, I hate perl!!!!  But that is just me:)  I ran

> We fear what we do not understand.

I understand Perl and still hate it :)


> Me? I sort of have an expectation that my Unix-like OS of choice
> has perl installed.  Hell, even Sun figured that out.

But at least pkgsrc makes an effort to track dependencies...

> That it's not there for Net or FreeBSD is a bit annoying and
> embarrassing.  It also means its a big PITA when you have to
> add packages and it's defaulting to 5.6.1.  I had to pull
> teeth to remove a solid install, upgrade perl, then all the
> packages.  It was about worth reinstalling ALL the packages
> from the start again.

But you'd have to do that anyway whether Perl was in-tree or not.
The library path has the version number hardcoded, doesn't it?

But I do wonder why 58 isn't default - platform compatibility, maybe?