Gimp Error

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 20, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-10-19 21:14:45 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> no. The file in question is from the p5-pathtools port, it  
>> supplies a newer
>> (but still compatible) version of a library that is included with the
>> normal perl distribution. Due to some peculiarities with how perl  
>> searches
>> for libraries, it is necessary to overwrite the provided version  
>> with the
>> new version for most software to be able to load it.
>
> This is incorrect. The user can control the way modules are  
> searched for.

It's not incorrect, it's just a simplification.

(unless we want to patch all existing software that depends on  
updates to perl-distributed modules being installed in this way, or  
change the search ordering for macports-provided perl we don't really  
have another good option).

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