Perl Uninstall Issues

[Eric Hall]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:56:40AM -0600, Christopher Stone wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> Okay.  I've gone through the selfupdate and update outdated processes, but when I look at ports installed it seems I have TWO versions of Perl installed:
> 
>   perl5 @5.12.3_0+perl5_12 (active)
>   perl5.12 @5.12.3_1 (active)
> 
> If I understand correctly I need to uninstall:
> 
>   perl5 @5.12.3_0+perl5_12 (active)


	You've got exactly what you should have, you shouldn't
have to uninstall anything.  The perl5 port is a wrapper for
perl5.x (i.e. perl5.8, perl5.10, perl5.12) so that other ports
can depend on perl5, not a particular version of perl5.



		-eric