Error installing rdiff-backup
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Aug 19 17:54:51 PDT 2009
On Aug 19, 2009, at 13:36, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> There have been a set of perl modules which are included with the
>> perl port, which are also available as separate module ports.
>> These separate module ports conflict with the modules installed by
>> the perl port, and so the activation must be forced. These
>> separate module ports print out an additional message advising the
>> user to do this. This situation is not ideal, because ideally a
>> user should never have to force an activation in normal use, but
>> it is the situation we have right now for those ports until
>> someone comes up with a better solution.
>
> This is not true anymore.
>
> We've updated the perl ports to search for modules we install
> before the perl core modules, so any ports that still require
> forced activation are no longer doing the right thing and need to
> be fixed.
Oh, ok. I see two ports that still have the message:
p5-test-harness
p5-podlators
There are comments in those portfiles that seem to say it won't work
any other way? Is that still current information?
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