Hi, On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:38:39 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The "perl" USE flag is new. What does it do? I just replied on the german ML to this question, but since it was re-asked here: The perl USE flag pulls in dev-lang/perl as a dependency. It is now a default USE flag on most profiles. I guess it's due to other flavours than Gentoo/Linux may have already a working perl in their base system (e.g. the BSDs, Darwin, whatever) and are assumed that there shouldn't be another one pulled in. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list