On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:30 PM, Derek Lamb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Same thing that happens when you install perl5.12 and perl5.14 and perl5.16?  
> The symlink from /opt/local/bin/perl points to whichever version is active 
> (and similarly for perl5, perlbug, perldoc, perlivp, and perlthanks), so 
> presumably if 5.12, 14, and 16 were installed and 16 was active, then all the 
> symlinks for the module binary p5-foo would point to p5.16-foo (or pfoo-5.16, 
> I guess).

Technically speaking, the target of the perl5 symlinks depend on which variant 
is chosen. So in an analogous setup, every p5-foo port would have variants for 
each possible p5.xy-foo. The default variant could be chosen depending on the 
current perl5 variant, maybe. But I think we've been moving away from using 
variants for this sort of thing, in favor of "port select".

vq
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