Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #46057, comment 8


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Dec 30, 2014, 6:36:26 PM (9 years ago)
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  • Ticket #46057, comment 8

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    11As stated in [https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46057#comment:5 comment5], the use of variants to try and resolve activation conflicts between the various subports is inappropriate.  In addition, the specification of a perl default is redundant as this is already handled by the perl5 portgroup.
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    3 The more traditional way to resolve the conflicts is to fix the port to install any binaries in ${perl5.bindir}.  This variable defaults is set by the perl5 portgroup to the versioned directory ${prefix}/libexec/perl${perl5.major}.  When binaries exist in this directory, the portgroup automatically creates versioned symbolic links to them in ${prefix}/bin resolving possible conflicts.
     3The more traditional way to resolve the conflicts is to fix the port to install any binaries in ${perl5.bindir}.  This variable's default is set by the perl5 portgroup to the versioned directory ${prefix}/libexec/perl${perl5.major}.  When binaries exist in this directory, the portgroup automatically creates versioned symbolic links to them in ${prefix}/bin resolving possible conflicts.
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    55In addition, there are some miscellaneous issues with the port's Makefile that can be handled more simply by patching the Makefile directly.  These include the creation of required installation directories in ${destroot} and enabling the installation of html documentation which is