[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 at macports.org  |       Owner:  mcalhoun at macports.org
      Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  assigned             
  Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:  Port Enhancements    
 Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.6.0                
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Comment(by dluke at macports.org):

 That seems OK to me, although I'm also happy with just having perl5.10
 become the default perl for us already.

 The one issue I still see would be with upgrading, an unknown number of p5
 ports that were installed for perl5.8 would need to be rebuilt to work
 with perl5.10 - and we don't have a good way of exposing that to macports
 (usually in cases like that, we end up resorting to rev-bumping things
 that haven't changed so that people rebuild them).

 I would lean towards having perl5.8 no longer install ${prefix}/bin/perl,
 have perl5.10 do that, and update the group code and other ports to depend
 on perl5.10 unless they specifically need perl5.8 for some reason.

 [And then someone needs to tackle the whole @INC ordering or other work-
 around for building newer versions of modules that get installed with the
 perl port.]

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830#comment:6>
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