Hello I recently reported what I thought was a bug in macports, but was in fact a misunderstanding on my part. Here is my report (in green) and the response to it (in blue) (between ===== marks)
========================================= *port install perl5 -perl5_16 +perl5_22* seems to work (perl executables linked to perl5.22 partners) but then: *port deps perl5* reports the following Full Name: perl5 @5.16.3_0+perl5_16 Library Dependencies: perl5.16 Comment: This is behaving correctly. *port deps perl5* shows the dependencies of the perl5 port in its default configuration, which currently means with the +perl5_16 variant. You have installed the port with the +perl5_22 variant, so if you would like to see the dependencies of that variant, you need to run *port deps perl5 +perl5_22*. ============================================= So I misunderstood the meaning of *port defs. *Thanks for the response. But then how would I, say months down the road, would I then be able to determine what variant of perl5 I actually have installed on my system? I don't see a command to do that. It doesn't seem to me that reporting perl5_16 to be default variant of perl5 is that useful (I could find that by *port variants perl5* could I not?) Doutbtless I am not the first to have this misconception although I did a search on perl5 and variants in the archives. Sorry if this is a topic that has been hashed and rehashed forever. Rob Stevens
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