Re: perl5.8 with 4.10 stable?
From: Warren Pollans (warren_at_meyer-pollans.net)
Date: 07/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:24:00 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
thank you - that's what I needed to know - I am a bit of a neatness freak but I'll try to exercise some restraint :-)
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:54:49 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> [perl 5.003.05 as bundled with 4.x systems]
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:01:33AM -0400, Warren Pollans wrote:
> > Thanks, do I also need to deinstall the old version?
>
> Not unless you're a neatness freak. Having the old version around is
> pretty harmless usually. Leave it lying about on the disk, or delete
> it -- makes little difference. Nb. don't delete /usr/bin/perl as
> that's now a symlink to the ports version of perl you will have
> installed.
>
> Cheers,
>
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