perl5.8 fixup

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 8, 2009, at 01:48, Joshua Root wrote:

> 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.

So we may have to settle for a different name for the perl port, e.g.  
perl5.8meta. Also a mess to have to update that everywhere. But I  
guess we've already done it once recently with the perl5.8->perl5  
switch.