Switching Perl Versions

[Rodolfo Aramayo]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:49, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:41, Rodolfo Aramayo <raramayo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can I just issue the command:
>>
>> sudo port install perl5 +perl5_14
>>
>> or
>> sudo port -R upgrade perl5 +perl5_14
>>
>
> The latter, with one modification:  you also need to disable the existing
> variant, or it will try to satisfy both (and error out because they
> conflict):
>
>     sudo port -R upgrade perl5 +perl5_14 -perl5_12
>

Regarding "you also need to disable the existing variant," I have to
uninstall it? And if I do, do I need to "follow-dependents"?
And does this command does upgrade the all the ports that were compiled for
p5.12??

Thanks

--R
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