On 2024-11-05 at 04:23:35 UTC-0500 (Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:23:35 +0000)
Maxim Abalenkov <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
[...]
This brings me to a more general question. Is one version of perl5_XY
enough to power all other MacPorts that depend on a Perl port
It has been for me, but your experience may vary.
Each Perl-dependent port needs to have all of its Perl dependencies
built with the same installation of Perl. However, not all programs with
Perl dependencies have variants or sub-ports for every version of Perl
in MacPorts.
or do we really need perl5_34 for one port A and perl5_36 for another
port B? Is it possible to bring ‘law and order’ into a MacPorts
installation and say: “Dear ports, please use the one and only Perl
port v5.40?” I’m sure someone sometime ago has already asked this
question, but I didn’t understand the answer that time. Thank you
for your help and have a wonderful day ahead!
The way I've kept up my MacPorts installation of Perl is to not switch
to the next version of Perl itself until all of the module ports that I
depend upon (237 of them) can use the updated version. Then I update all
of them at the same time.
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