tetex/texlive dependencies

[Anders F Björklund]

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