[MacPorts] #16830: RFE: Have only one perl5 package

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#16830: RFE: Have only one perl5 package
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 Reporter:  mcalhoun@…             |       Owner:  mcalhoun@…              
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  assigned                
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:  Port Enhancements       
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.6.0                   
 Keywords:                         |        Port:  perl5, perl5.8, perl5.10
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Comment(by mcalhoun@…):

 Replying to [comment:38 jason@…]:
 > So you can see the problem is perl5 and perl5.8 now just point to each
 other.  So if something tries to execute either one, a failure occurs.  I
 tried forcing and uninstall of perl5 and perl5.8 & reinstalling just to be
 sure this is the current behavior.

 From what I can see, perl5 and perl5.8 both point to perl5.8.8, which is
 an executable.[[BR]]
 Why is this not correct?[[BR]]

 On my machine,
 {{{
 /opt/local/bin/perl5 --version
 /opt/local/bin/perl5.8 --version
 /opt/local/bin/perl5.8.8 --version
 }}}
 all run.

 What is the failure?

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830#comment:43>
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