[help2man variant with perl5_40, use MacPorts with single Perl port]

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-11-05 at 04:23:35 UTC-0500 (Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:23:35 +0000)
Maxim Abalenkov <maxim.abalenkov at gmail.com>
is rumored to have said:

[...]
> This brings me to a more general question. Is one version of perl5_XY 
> enough to power all other MacPorts that depend on a Perl port

It has been for me, but your experience may vary.

Each Perl-dependent port needs to have all of its Perl dependencies 
built with the same installation of Perl. However, not all programs with 
Perl dependencies have variants or sub-ports for every version  of Perl 
in MacPorts.

> or do we really need perl5_34 for one port A and perl5_36 for another 
> port B? Is it possible to bring ‘law and order’ into a MacPorts 
> installation and say: “Dear ports, please use the one and only Perl 
> port v5.40?” I’m sure someone sometime ago has already asked this 
> question, but I didn’t understand the answer that time. Thank you 
> for your help and have a wonderful day ahead!

The way I've kept up my MacPorts installation of Perl is to not switch 
to the next version of Perl itself until all of the module ports that I 
depend upon (237 of them) can use the updated version. Then I update all 
of them at the same time.






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