perl5.8 fixup

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 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.

Not least of which will be the creation of circular dependencies in the
registry, with perl5.8 depending on ports that used to depend on it.

- Josh