[41395] trunk/dports/devel/autoconf/Portfile

Eric Hall opendarwin.org at darkart.com
Sat Nov 1 19:49:46 PDT 2008


On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 04:21:54PM -0700, David Evans wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what the agenda is with the new perl5 port but if the idea
> is to eventually replace port perl5.8 with it then ports that depend on
> perl5.8 shouldn't be changed to perl5 (even with a path dependency)
> until we're ready for the switch and then change the dependencies in all
> effected ports at once.
> 
> Looks like doing this piecemeal won't work since you can't have perl5
> installed for some and perl5.8 installed for others.
> 

	Why do we have a perl5 port alongside the perl5.8 and perl5.10
ports?  If its breaking things it seems to me we shouldn't have a plain
'perl5' port until we're ready to make an proper switch to it.


		-eric



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