[MacPorts] #22212: pidgin, finch: restore perl and make it a variant

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#22212: pidgin, finch: restore perl and make it a variant
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  Reporter:  nefar@…              |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
      Type:  defect               |      Status:  reopened               
  Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:                         
 Component:  ports                |     Version:  1.8.1                  
Resolution:                       |    Keywords:                         
      Port:  pidgin, finch        |  
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Changes (by nefar@…):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:2 ryandesign@…]:
 > I reenabled perl in pidgin and finch in r68115. I didn't see a reason to
 add a no_perl variant. (Or is there a reason why a user would want to
 disable perl support? It's not as if doing so would save them from having
 to install perl, since perl is already an indirect dependency.)
 >
 > I also added an fs-traverse block to delete the perllocal.pod file that
 then got created. No port should create or claim ownership of this file.


 It seems you also disabled the ability of having both finch and pidgin
 installed. I'm now getting this error:

 --->  Computing dependencies for finchError: Unable to execute port: Can't
 install finch because conflicting ports are installed: pidgin

 However, there's absolutely no reason why both should not be able to co-
 exist.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22212#comment:3>
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