Agreed. I’ve chosen to have my main build machine run perl5.30, but that causes ports like help2man to try to reinstall perl5.28.
On my FreeBSD machines you set the Perl branch in /etc/make.conf, and all the Makefiles respect that setting. Marius -- Marius Schamschula > On Jun 22, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> > wrote: > > A simple used-to-be-quick build of "curl" now requires two different perls > installed. > > Perhaps unavoidable in some cases, but if you look around the web, this is in > fact the #1 complaint about MacPorts: bloat. > > It might be an idea for the admins to "set" the perl version all ports will > use (barring some actual real need for another), and then --- all-at-once -- > change it to some new version to avoid this. > > And ideally we could look at changing it once every few years. > > Ken
