perl5.8 fixup

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 7, 2009, at 15:49, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> I don't know how useful perl is with no modules but it sounds good  
> to me to be able to install perl without them.
> perl5.8-core sounds appealing.

I don't think there's a desire to allow perl5 to be installed without  
the modules, but there is a desire to have each of those modules  
represented by its own port where it can be separately updated and  
maintained and depended upon.

There will of course be pain in switching from a perl5.8 port which  
installs perl to a perl5.8 port which installs no files and depends  
on a perl5.8-core port which installs the same files that perl5.8  
used to install.