Never mind - I'm going blind.  It was amanda-server that wanted perl.
Thanks
--sjg

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:56:10 -0700 (PDT), "Simon J. Gerraty" writes:
>I see that the amanda stuff I just built, depends on perl-base which
>appears to no longer be present (all I have in lang/perl-base now is a
>symlink to work :-), so I tried to build perl5 - but that won't
>install because all the conflicting perl packages are installed - and
>needed by amanda.