Macports 2.0.3/Lion 10.7.2 Perl

[Mr. Puneet Kishor]

On Nov 2, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:

> On 2/11/11 at 16:11, punk.kish at gmail.com (Mr. Puneet Kishor) wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> $port installed perl5.14
>> The following ports are currently installed:
>> perl5.14 @5.14.1_0
>> perl5.14 @5.14.1_1 (active)
>> 
>> $port installed perl*
>> The following ports are currently installed:
>> perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12 (active)
>> perl5.12 @5.12.3_1
>> perl5.12 @5.12.3_2 (active)
>> perl5.14 @5.14.1_0
>> perl5.14 @5.14.1_1 (active)
> 
> Hi.
> 
> That’s a few perls you have installed there...
> 
> You have three active perls & two inactive ones. Unless you really need to, one in /opt/local/ should be quite sufficient (the perl in /usr/bin/ is the system one & is best left alone IMO).
> 
> If I were you & this depends on what you have previously used any of the /opt/local/ perls for, I’d uninstall the lot of them & start again with just the latest version MacPorts has.
> 
> Saying that, I would stress you wait for a second, third & fourth opinion which I’m sure will be forthcoming.
> 

If only it were so easy. I installed 5.14.1 by choice (it was the latest at that time), but the others got installed because some port or the other was tied to a different version, and once a port uses a particular version as a dependency, it installs it even if a later one is available.

What I don't understand is why I have more than one "active." Actually, I don't even understand the implication of that.

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Puneet Kishor