> On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > >> On Dec 16, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Adam Dershowitz wrote: >> >>>> Is the problem with perl5 +perl5_16 ? Since that is version 5.22.1? >>>> Should I not have installed that? >>> >>> If perl5 +perl5_16 installs version 5.22.1 for you, that certainly >>> shouldn't have happened. >> >> Sorry I wasn’t clear. I just meant that I perl5 shows this: >> perl5 @5.22.1_0+perl5_16 (active) >> >> So, it is version 5.22 But, it ddid install 5_16. >> > > The "version number" of the perl5 port means absolutely nothing because the > perl5 port installs nothing, other than symlinks to the version of perl that > you've requested via your variant selection. It might be clearer and help > avoid this confusion if we changed the version number of the perl5 port to > something that is clearly not a version number of the perl software, such as > 1.0 or 20151216. >
Thanks. That makes sense. I was reaching to make sense of it all, because currently the situation is I upgraded to 10.11 so I removed all my ports, and now can’t get many of my ports reinstalled because perl seems critical to a bunch of other ports, and was really trying to just figure out the cause. —Adam _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
