perl5.8 fixup

[Rainer Müller]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:17, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
>>> Did you mean that the perl5.8 port would declare dependencies on  
>>> each of these perl5.8 module ports, e.g. "depends_lib-append p5- 
>>> some-module"? If so, I don't think that can work, since the  
>>> modules require perl5.8 to build.
>> True, so can we make a wrapper port that:
>> depends_lib-append perl5 all_the_default_p5's

The port installing perl itself can not depend on any p5-* ports, as
they require perl. Circular dependencies are not possible.

There would have to be a split into e.g. perl5.8-core and a perl5.8 meta
port. This meta port would depend on perl5.8-core and additional p5-* ports.

Rainer