* On 15/10/06 21:11 -0800, John Andersen wrote: | On Sunday 15 October 2006 19:08, John Thompson wrote: | | > If you have 3.1.5 working well I wouldn't bother. Besides, 3.1.7 is out | > already to address some 3.1.6 "oops" issues, but it hasn't made it into | > the FreeBSD ports tree yet. | | Why does it have to be in the ports tree? Does the CPAN version | not run on FreeBSD? | | Full disclosure: I ran FreeBSD for exactly 6 months many years | ago, so consider me clueless.
You're right. They'd both work the same, as far as I've seen all these years. The only difference is that the port allows one to pull in some complementary apps like DCC, RAZOR, etc in a clean way (clean, as in a systems maintained mostly via ports, not manual compiles). -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Whistler's Law: You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge.
