On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I think the perl5 portgroup is supposed to contain code now to make it
> easy to create perl variants, instead of having to write all this code to
> do it manually.


eperl is not a Perl module though, it is a Perl *interpreter* (embedded
Perl). The portgroup fits somewhat dubiously as a result, and it's easier
to duplicate that part of the portgroup logic than to suppress or mutate
all the rest of the portgroup's logic.

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