tetex/texlive dependencies
Anders F Björklund
afb at macports.org
Sun Jan 13 02:15:27 PST 2008
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> While different python versions are incompatible, different perl
> versions should be compatible (there are very few backward
> incompatibilities, but modules based on them should be seen as buggy).
> So, I'd say that perl5.10 should completely replace perl5.8, i.e. it
> should provide ${prefix}/bin/perl, and if some modules ever fail with
> 5.10[*] and the bug can't easily be fixed, then the perl5.8 port could
> provide a variant without ${prefix}/bin/perl.
You are right, although there's a lot of ports that are using
"bin:perl:perl5.8" (or port:perl and then ${prefix}/bin/perl)
that would probably be surprised when such a change is made...
--anders
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