Thanks for the info, I will use the pkgsrc system for perl.

Charles Zmudzinski

>From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
>To: Charles Zmudzinski <brchuck@hotmail.com>
>CC: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: How to tell pkgsrc I installed a program manually
>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:34:04 +0100
>
>hi,
>
>On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:23:59PM -0500, Charles Zmudzinski wrote:
> > Is there a way to prevent pkgsrc from fetching and building dependent
> > packages needed by another package because it is already on the
> > system?  I just started using pkgsrc and am trying to install gtk,
> > which requires perl5 to build. But I want to tell pkgsrc I already
> > have a non-pkgsrc installation of perl5 so that pkgsrc won't install
> > another version of perl on the system when I build gtk. Forgive me if
> > the answer is in the Packages Documentation somewhere, but I could not
> > easily find the answer to this question if it is there somewhere.
>
>pkgsrc allows local installation of _some_ software.  perl is not one of
>them for consistency reasons.  so to answer your question, no, there is
>no way to tell pkgsrc you have other perl installed.
>
>
>regards,
>
>--
>-- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --
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