On Nov 2, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 2/11/11 at 16:11, [email protected] (Mr. Puneet Kishor) wrote: > > [snip] > >> $port installed perl5.14 >> The following ports are currently installed: >> perl5.14 @5.14.1_0 >> perl5.14 @5.14.1_1 (active) >> >> $port installed perl* >> The following ports are currently installed: >> perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12 (active) >> perl5.12 @5.12.3_1 >> perl5.12 @5.12.3_2 (active) >> perl5.14 @5.14.1_0 >> perl5.14 @5.14.1_1 (active) > > Hi. > > That’s a few perls you have installed there... > > You have three active perls & two inactive ones. Unless you really need to, > one in /opt/local/ should be quite sufficient (the perl in /usr/bin/ is the > system one & is best left alone IMO). > > If I were you & this depends on what you have previously used any of the > /opt/local/ perls for, I’d uninstall the lot of them & start again with just > the latest version MacPorts has. > > Saying that, I would stress you wait for a second, third & fourth opinion > which I’m sure will be forthcoming. >
If only it were so easy. I installed 5.14.1 by choice (it was the latest at that time), but the others got installed because some port or the other was tied to a different version, and once a port uses a particular version as a dependency, it installs it even if a later one is available. What I don't understand is why I have more than one "active." Actually, I don't even understand the implication of that. -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
