Runtime dependencies on Perl

[Daniel J. Luke]

On May 11, 2016, at 2:02 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> I noticed that some ports like git strictly have just runtime dependencies on
>   ${perl5.major}-whatever

yes. that's currently our practice.

> What's currently the best way to avoid the need to recompile a port
> like that? Using
>    p5-whatever
> instead?

I think we had decided some time ago that ports "weren't allowed" to depend on the p5-foo ports but needed to depend directly on a version'd p5 port (reproducibility, consistency, etc.)

I still think the real solution here is to just stop trying to support multiple perl versions.

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Daniel J. Luke