Why does Texinfo explicitly depend on perl 5.30?

Vincent Habchi vince at macports.org
Sun Sep 5 13:27:35 UTC 2021


Hey Mojca,

> My personal guess: no special reason other than trying to use a newer
> version given that it was available.
> It's a bit unfortunate if some ports use one version and others
> another, but in particular 5.30 is already obsolete.

Couldn’t the Portfile be modified in order to comply with the version the user has given in the perl5 metaport?

Vincent



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