In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007041336530.29215-100000@rfhpc8320.fh-regensburg.de>,
	Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> For b) this needs some subtle changes to packages, which is not easy to
> work out: some GNU autoconf scripts detect perl automatically, so there
> may no be much work to do there. Other packages may need additional
> patches, configure arguments, different PLIST etc. to disable/enable perl
> support - right now, we don't have an infrastructure to accomodate that.

And it will create package variants all behaving differently. That way
you can be sure what features a precompiled binary package supports and
what not. That was why the package source maintainer decided against
optional dependences.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                            http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/