I have had this problems twice now where I performed a port selfupdate and it ended up changing my version of Perl to 5.12.4. This wouldn't have been that bad, except that it appeared that the previous version , 5.10.1 was deleted. This was a problem because the number of Perl modules that I have to install to get our product working is quite large and takes a while to install (and even hack to get some working ), so I would prefer not to go this route again.
I am asking this question now because I currently am getting messages informing me that I must "selfupdate" my ports again, but I am really hesitant to do this if my Perl distro might get removed again. Should the "port selfupdate" actually remove existing packages , like a Perl , or did I just do something strange with my invocation of the command ? Is there a way to guard against this ? Thanks for any information that could shed light on this matter, -Jimi
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