> >if i go and remove the pkg by hand and then install the new one...does
> >everything get screwed up?  or should i really go around rebuilding 28
> >things after i reinstall perl?  i'm pretty sure that they all just
> >wanna know the binary is at /usr/pkg/bin/perl...
> 
> or...what if i just remove the +REQUIRED_BY file from the pkg
> database, delete and reinstall perl, and then put it back?

Are you sure that Perl distributes files/directories cotaining its
version number?

Masao