<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Agreed.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve chosen to have my main build machine run perl5.30, but that causes ports like help2man to try to reinstall perl5.28.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On my FreeBSD machines you set the Perl branch in /etc/make.conf, and all the Makefiles respect that setting.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 22, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com" class="">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">A simple used-to-be-quick build of "curl" now requires two different perls installed.<br class=""><br class="">Perhaps unavoidable in some cases, but if you look around the web, this is in fact the #1 complaint about MacPorts: bloat.<br class=""><br class="">It might be an idea for the admins to "set" the perl version all ports will use (barring some actual real need for another), and then --- all-at-once -- change it to some new version to avoid this.<br class=""><br class="">And ideally we could look at changing it once every few years.<br class=""><br class="">Ken</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>