Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@...> writes: > On Mar 7, 2009, at 15:49, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > > I don't know how useful perl is with no modules but it sounds good > > to me to be able to install perl without them. > > perl5.8-core sounds appealing. > > I don't think there's a desire to allow perl5 to be installed without > the modules, If I understand http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12710#comment:10 correctly, some modules are required.
Please forgive me, but I am having a little trouble understanding what is being proposed with this meta-port suggestion. >but there is a desire to have each of those modules > represented by its own port where it can be separately updated and > maintained and depended upon. Isn't that what we have now? > > There will of course be pain in switching from a perl5.8 port which > installs perl to a perl5.8 port which installs no files and depends > on a perl5.8-core port which installs the same files that perl5.8 > used to install. If I understand what is being discussed (please correct me if I'm wrong), we would * copy perl5.8 -> perl5.8-core. * create a port which installs all the core p5 ports. * make perl5.8 do nothing except depend on perl5.8-core and the new p5 umbrella port. It seems that this does not buy us anything, so I fear I am missing something. -Marcus _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
