perl and ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:26:07AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:53:01 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:30:05PM +1000, Warren wrote:
> > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:28 pm, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> > > > does cvsup need perl ?
> > >
> > > Yes
> > 
> > Only to compile it from ports, not to run the resulting package.
> > 
> > Kris
> > 
> 
> 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 ?

It's not up to us - if the third-party software requires a port to
build, that's what it needs.

Kris

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