3/30    Can root install the lastest version of perl?
        \_ Yes.
        \_ % mail root
        \_ It's already installed.  Use /usr/local/bin/perl, not /usr/bin/perl
           --dbushong
           \_ Why are two different versions installed?
                \_ because freebsd is stupid
                   \_ Because soda is running a 2 year old version of FreeBSD,
                      when perl4 shipped as part of the OS and was "perl" and
                      perl5 was an option to be installed in /usr/local/bin?
                      Of course, if it were Linux, it would have been the
                      latest broken beta sitting in /bin/perl  --dbushong
              \_ former = perl5, latter = perl4
                 \_ which doesn't answer the question.  Why are two
                    different versions installed both as a binary named
                    'perl'?  Why not put 'perl4' in /usr/local/bin
                    instead of the confusing mess of having one version
                    down one path and another version down another path?
                    \_ Stop whining.  You can always create sym links
                       in your bin directory and put your bin in front of
                       your path setting.
                       \_ Who's whining?  Note that the question asked
                          was "why," which regrettably assumed there was
                          a valid reason (which apparantly there is).
                          Why is it whining to ask for people to answer
                          the question posed?  I'm fully aware of how to
                          avoid the problem--however that wasn't the
                          question I asked.  Thank you dbushong for
                          actually answering.
                        \_ Some people have confused a valid question with
                           whining to such a degree that they can either no
                           longer tell the difference or simply knee-jerk
                           their own whine about others' alleged whining.
                           Welcome to the motd.