On Dec 28, 2008, at 4:28 PM, nicerobot wrote:
There's one fairly significant oversight

nope, it's a considered design decision.

with respect to doing this with
perl. Modules. Having multiple instances of the same version of perl5 that are built with different @INC is a complete mess. At the very least, port should configure itself to (or ask if it should) use the same configuration
as the existing perl installation.


This would probably be a bad idea.

See also:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#WillMacPortslinktosystemlibrariesratherthanitsown
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