Perl 5.14 ad default, and Irssi to use it

[Craig Treleaven]

At 6:45 PM -0600 1/16/12, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>On Jan 16, 2012, at 12:34, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>
>> On 16/1/12 18:15, Timothy Makobu wrote:
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>>> Is there a way to make perl 5.14 the default perl in my system, and to make
>>> everything depending on perl accept that version?
>>
>> Add /opt/local/bin/your/perl/here
>>
>> to your .bash_profile
>
>Instead, we recommend you install the perl5 port for the variant you want; this will install /opt/local/bin/perl as a symlink to your chosen version. For example, if you want /opt/local/bin/perl to be perl 5.14, run:
>
>sudo port install perl5 +perl5_14
>
>> & run cpan from /opt/local (put an alias to that cpan
>> in your .bash_profile too).
>
>We recommend you do not use cpan. ...

Didn't realize that.  What goes wrong with running /opt/local/cpan ? 

Craig