version of perl dependency

Altoine Barker ndiscreet at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 08:10:00 PST 2008


I think the best solution would be to create a variant, unless you are
referring to ports that depend on perl as a build dependency?

-Altoine

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Moshe Kamensky <moshe.kamensky at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> Is there a standard way to make applications that depend on perl depend
> on perl 5.10, rather than perl 5.8? Currently I'm just blindly replacing
> all occurrences of 'port:perl5.8' with 'port:perl5.10' in all Portfiles,
> but I think it's a bit unsafe.
>
> Thanks,
> Moshe
>
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