Perl 5.8.8 already present on Leopard; can I make a "dummy" Portfile?

[Rainer Müller]

nicerobot wrote:
> Maybe i'm wrong but i
> thought macports was about providing solution, not creating hurdles.

I don't know much about perl modules, but please propose changes to
current ports to macports-dev, file tickets and discuss it with the port
maintainers.

I think perl modules from the system in @INC are just left out for
consistency. Adding dependencies on perl modules isn't that easy and I
don't know if it creates any side effects to include system by default.
If any perl modules are missing, please report so and file tickets in
"Port Requests".

Marc Chantreux is working on cpan2port which is quite an interesting
project to make it easier to port perl modules also available over CPAN
and should make this process more easy in the future.

Rainer