On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:06:49 +0100
Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:54:58AM -0800, Ben Calvert wrote:
> > 
> >   
> > 
> > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 23:43:47 +0100
> > Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > oh, and as we have perl in base, why don't you just enable perl by
> > > default instead of creating a FLAVOR?
> > > 
> > 
> > How broadly are you willing to extend this policy?  for example, we
> > have a -perl flavor for vim, which means I always have to compile
> > from ports rather than using the package 
> 
> This is something different, actually.
> 
> The perl vim flavor embeds parts of a perl interpreter into vim,
> bloating the editor a great deal.
> 
> Whereas fastcgi perl support is just some extra files in the package,
> with about no tendrils in fastcgi proper...
> 

ah.  ok.  nevermind then. I'll just keep compiling it by hand.

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