On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:24:10 +0200, Sime Ramov wrote: > * Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> [2011-10-29T19:03+0200]: >> Since you're not interested in the output of the pkg_add command, you >> should do: >> >> system("pkg_add", $_); > > Actually, I am. I want to be able to interface with the program. E.g. if > there are multiple flavors for some package, `pkg_add` might prompt me > which one to install.
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