* Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22/11/08 15:54]: > > On Nov 22, 2008, at 10:10, Altoine Barker wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Moshe Kamensky wrote: >> >>> Is there a standard way to make applications that depend on perl depend >>> on perl 5.10, rather than perl 5.8? Currently I'm just blindly replacing >>> all occurrences of 'port:perl5.8' with 'port:perl5.10' in all Portfiles, >>> but I think it's a bit unsafe. >> >> I think the best solution would be to create a variant, unless you are >> referring to ports that depend on perl as a build dependency? > > No variant, please; not for this. As was already said, just declare the > dependency on perl as "path:bin/perl:perl5". That's the new style we're > trying to switch all perl-depending ports to. See: > > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830 > I don't understand --- this seems to entail changing the Portfiles as well (which I was trying to avoid). I was hoping there was some way to do this by changing the configuration files
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