Steven Hartland wrote:
Seems portupgrade can easily break the perl install.
How? Well there are various modules which can be updated
but are also part of the base perl and are hence required.
A good example of this is ExtUtils::MakeMaker. If you
uninstall any version of this port your done for, as
trying to build it requires ExtUtils::Command which in
turn requires ExtUtils::MakeMaker which was just deleted.
This circular dependency would not be an issue if the
uninstall somehow knew that the files where required
by perl, and hence didn't break the base port ( perl )
by removing them.
I think something is not quite right in your analysis, because perl does
not depend on any external perl modules (it cannot, by definition).
Kris
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