Mention the FreeBSD Perl policy change.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17116

diff --git a/README.freebsd b/README.freebsd
index e147c66..36d6bf1 100644 (file)
--- a/README.freebsd
+++ b/README.freebsd
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ result of reading this symlink is can be wrong in certain circumstances
 In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's
 argv[0] value for C<$^X>.
 
+=head2 Perl will no more be part of "base FreeBSD"
+
+Not as bad as it sounds--what is means is that Perl will no more be
+part of the B<kernel build system> of FreeBSD.  Perl will still very
+probably be part of the "default install", and in any case the latest
+version will be in the ports system.  The first FreeBSD version this
+change will affect is 5.0, all 4.n versions will keep the status quo.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic