[71761] trunk/dports/sysutils/dpkg

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 22, 2010, at 15:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Sep 22, 2010, at 15:41, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> On 2010-9-23 06:15 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> Weren't we supposed to be depending on perl as "path:bin/perl:perl5"?
>> 
>> That makes no sense given that perl5 doesn't provide bin/perl...
> 
> Well, AFAIK that has been the recommendation for years, and over a hundred of our ports do it that way. If you don't think that's the right way to do it, let's figure out what the right way is, and fix all ports to do it that way.

Usage of "path:bin/perl:perl5" began with the attempt to unify the perl ports....

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830#comment:36

Marcus would be the one to ask about whether that usage is still correct / desired.