version of perl dependency

[Moshe Kamensky]

* Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> [22/11/08 15:54]:
>
> On Nov 22, 2008, at 10:10, Altoine Barker wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Moshe Kamensky wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>
> No variant, please; not for this. As was already said, just declare the 
> dependency on perl as "path:bin/perl:perl5". That's the new style we're 
> trying to switch all perl-depending ports to. See:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830
>
I don't understand --- this seems to entail changing the Portfiles as 
well (which I was trying to avoid). I was hoping there was some way to 
do this by changing the configuration files

Thanks,
Moshe

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