How can I control the Perl version I want?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 5, 2012, at 12:26, Mark Anderson wrote:

> Install perl5 +perl_514 instead of perl5 +perl5_12
> 
> I think that should work.

Yes, that will make "perl" be perl 5.14 instead of 5.12. However, there is no way to control what version of perl is used by various other ports, unless those ports offer perl variants (and I'm not aware of any that do that).