You are right. Now I'm back in the office I have looked at the log of a build of perl 5.8.4 on a Solaris box. The default to "Do you want to install perl as /usr/bin/perl?" is indeed no.
One less thing for the AnonyMonk to worry about.
Cheers,
JohnGG
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