perl5 AND perl5.8 ?

[Erwan David]

On 01/03/11 21:02, Scott Webster wrote:
> 2011/3/1 Erwan David <erwan at rail.eu.org>:
>>        I never explicitely installed perl, it came from dependencies.
>> Today port outdated says:
>> perl5                          5.8.9_0 < 5.12.3_0
>> perl5.8                        5.8.9_3 < 5.8.9_4
>>
>> What should I do ?
>>
>> I doubt having perl 5.8 and perl 5.12 will be okay...
> 
> I would probably wait and not upgrade those packages until after the
> whole perl thing is sorted out.  If you upgrade now there is a good
> chance that some of your software will stop working.
> 
> Alternatively you could switch perl5 to use the perl5_8 variant; or
> upgrade it as is (which will switch to perl5.12) and then recompile
> all of your p5-* ports.
> 
> Scott
> 

Easier : With several port uninstall, I arrived to the conclusion that
only autoconf and automake needed it, (with help2man and
p5-locale-gettext) : I removed everything, since they are only build
dependencies.

A way to remove the build dependencies would be interesting....