cannot install ack

Lawrence Velázquez larry.velazquez at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 06:30:43 PDT 2012


On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:24 a.m., Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> OK. Your first reply implied there was a good reason not to have this option at all in this case, not that it simply didn't exist yet...
> 
> Well, it's not been done yet because every single port that can be installed using different versions of Perl would need a select created. At best we could automate this for everything in bin/, but again how do you pick which version is the one the user wants short of making the user running select on every single package.

Should ack even have subports? Is this something that people would want to install under different Perls?


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