RFC: inverting @INC for perl5.{8,10}

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Eric Hall wrote:
> 	I don't know what negative impacts this has (I can imagine
> problems with core modules expecting to get an older version of
> another modules, dunno if that's a real problem or not),

That's the only problem I can think of.

> and
> I'd expect this would be exposed in FreeBSD if it is a real-world
> problem.

Right, since FreeBSD does it this way, I think we're safe to at least  
try it.

> 	Anyone see any other problems with this idea, and/or
> reasons we should not do this?


I think this is a good change, we'll be able to get rid of the few  
ports that require being installed with force (and therefore mess  
things up when reinstalling/upgrading the perl port).

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