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<body><div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto">On 2024-11-05 at 04:23:35 UTC-0500 (Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:23:35 +0000)
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Maxim Abalenkov <maxim.abalenkov@gmail.com>
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is rumored to have said:</p>
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<blockquote><p dir="auto">This brings me to a more general question. Is one version of perl5_XY enough to power all other MacPorts that depend on a Perl port</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">It has been for me, but your experience may vary.</p>
<p dir="auto">Each Perl-dependent port needs to have all of its Perl dependencies built with the same installation of Perl. However, not all programs with Perl dependencies have variants or sub-ports for every version of Perl in MacPorts.</p>
<blockquote><p dir="auto">or do we really need perl5_34 for one port A and perl5_36 for another port B? Is it possible to bring ‘law and order’ into a MacPorts installation and say: “Dear ports, please use the one and only Perl port v5.40?” I’m sure someone sometime ago has already asked this question, but I didn’t understand the answer that time. Thank you for your help and have a wonderful day ahead!</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">The way I've kept up my MacPorts installation of Perl is to not switch to the next version of Perl itself until all of the module ports that I depend upon (237 of them) can use the updated version. Then I update all of them at the same time.</p>
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