dvdrip confusion

[Jan Stary]

On Oct 28 00:21:19, macports at metaspasm.org wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:12 PM, bunk3m <bunk3m at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-exec
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-master
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-multitee
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-progress
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-replex
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-splash
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-splitpipe
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-subpng
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-thumb
> > >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/execflow
> > >
> > 
> > These are the programs you expect. They're not in /opt/local/bin because
> > you could also install dvdrip in perl5.14 and perl5.16 and probably some
> > other Perl versions... which one wins? What happens if they install
> > something different in a different Perl version? It's the price we pay for
> > supporting more than one concurrently installed version of Perl.
> > 
> > Yes, we have port select, but it rapidly becomes unwieldy when applied to
> > dependents of Perl. Instead you can add something to $PATH --- your choice
> > which one comes first, not MacPorts', which is why MacPorts doesn't do it
> > for you --- or symlink them somewhere on $PATH, as you prefer.
> >
> 
> How about putting a note in the Portfile?  I don't recall seeing any mention of
> manual configuration during the install.

The user is not supposed to be reading the Portfile.