Another (but smaller) mass update to perl5 ports

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Mar 5 23:14:00 PST 2011


On Mar 5, 2011, at 16:11, Larry Gilbert wrote:

> Brad Giesbrecht pointed out to me that a bunch of ports in the perl5
> PortGroup are using "depends_lib" when they should be using
> "depends_lib-append".
> 
> I'm planning to do a commit that corrects this in 25 different
> {no,open}maintainer ports, bumping each port's revision in order to
> avoid any outlying cases where these modules got installed and perl5
> didn't.
> 
> As far as I know, this is an acceptable case for editing multiple
> ports in one commit, but since I haven't done one this big before
> (that I recall), I wanted to announce it before the fact to give
> others the chance to speak up in case I'm about to do something
> horribly wrong!


Sounds ok to me. Thanks for finding this problem and taking the initiative to fix it. :)





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