On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Dave Burgess wrote:

> With CPAN already out there, our support of PERL should not be to
> re-invent the distribution wheel, but to provide a hook into CPAN which
> would make getting and installing Perl (and it's attendant components)
> that much easier.

that's precisely what the perl package is for in our pkgsrc distribution,
if i'm understanding you correctly.

--scott