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

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 29, 2008, at 10:59 AM, nicerobot wrote:
>  For a user to enable such a feature implies they
> have some idea of what they're doing and know it could destabilize  
> macports
> so it isn't breaking it "seemingly randomly" since it would be  
> intentional.

 From this, I would assume that you've never worked in a support  
role ;-)

This is a case where an additional option could cause a lot of harm to  
an unsuspecting end user, and there's not a lot of benefit (that I can  
see, anyway).

Either you buy into the idea of using a system to organize and install  
software for you, or you want to manage it yourself - there's not  
really a good way to combine the two.

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Daniel J. Luke
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