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

[Marius Schamschula]

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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