[MacPorts] #30580: biblatex-biber dependencies

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#30580: biblatex-biber dependencies
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 Reporter:  Philip@…            |       Owner:  dports@…           
     Type:  update              |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                     
Component:  ports               |     Version:  2.0.1              
 Keywords:  biber               |        Port:  biblatex-biber     
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Comment(by dports@…):

 Greetings (and thanks for your work on biblatex/biber; I'm looking forward
 to giving it a try on a paper I'm working on!)

 It's by design that we're using the perl modules instead of the binary.
 Actually, it's also the reason I created a separate port for it instead of
 using the binaries in TL2011.

 This is for all the same reasons that we prefer to install libraries
 separately rather than statically linking binaries: it keeps people from
 having to install multiple copies of the perl interpreter and its modules
 if they need them for separate ports, and avoids the need to keep multiple
 versions up to date wrt bug and security fixes and the like. Also, for
 perl in particular, it's likely that most users will have the interpreter
 and some of the common libraries around anyway, as they're dependencies
 for many ports.

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