randomly bumping things to require perl 5.30 vs 5.28 requires everyone to have both installed ...

Marius Schamschula lists at schamschula.com
Mon Jun 22 16:20:19 UTC 2020


Agreed.

I’ve chosen to have my main build machine run perl5.30, but that causes ports like help2man to try to reinstall perl5.28.

On my FreeBSD machines you set the Perl branch in /etc/make.conf, and all the Makefiles respect that setting.

Marius
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Marius Schamschula




> On Jun 22, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A simple used-to-be-quick  build of "curl" now requires two different perls installed.
> 
> Perhaps unavoidable in some cases, but if you look around the web, this is in fact the #1 complaint about MacPorts: bloat.
> 
> It might be an idea for the admins to "set" the perl version all ports will use (barring some actual real need for another), and then --- all-at-once -- change it to some new version to avoid this.
> 
> And ideally we could look at changing it once every few years.
> 
> Ken

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