Ah, so apparently the reason this met total silence was that it got
lost/dropped somewhere so only I thought it was posted. Odd...
Reposted message:
From: Bill Cole <macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com>
To: macports-users@lists.macports.org
Subject: What's the push to require the latest Perl?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:00:20 -0500
In regards to https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55208 :
In doing pre-upgrade due diligence I ran across this:
# port rdeps p5.24-net-dns
The following ports are dependencies of p5.24-net-dns @1.140.0_0:
perl5.24
[...]
p5.24-net-libidn2
libidn2
pkgconfig
autoconf
xz
automake
libtool
xattr
unzip
libunistring
perl5
texinfo
help2man
perl5.26
p5.26-locale-gettext
That seems unhelpful... Why would help2man demand the absolute latest
Perl? Well, because the Portfile says it does. However, in the real
world, help2man is happy with any perl since 5.8.
Doing a 'port -y upgrade outdated' reveals that multiple ports are
threatening to demand perl5.26 if I try to upgrade them, like whois!?
Because it needs perl to build???
This is insanity. Can anyone convince me otherwise or even explain how
this hasn't led to an angry mob with torches and pitchforks? Because I
have one of each if anyone wants to join the revolt...
--
Bill Cole
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