On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Herb Peyerl wrote:

> However, just installing 'Perl' never seems to be the answer.  It seems
> like you have to use CPAN to go off and fetch about 500 seperate little
> dependancies for each script you want to run.

Yes. This is usually the point where I just give up, go finish my bottle
of vodka, and drown my sorrows.

> So if you're going to lobby to have Perl mainlined (pun intended), then
> you have to figure out how to make it useful for those who are not going
> to be net.connected.

It's not useless just because it doesn't cover every last thing.
Having perl and a reasonable array of the commonly used modules would
cover a lot more ground than having nothing at all. I get along quite
well with the current configuration that installs from pkgsrc.

cjs
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