o > 1) Rename perl5.8 to p5-base. o > 2) Remove p5-math-bigint related files from the p5-base o > 3) Make p5-math-bigint build itself from the perl CORE source tree. o > 4) Add a +cpan variant to p5-math-bigint that builds from CPAN. o > 5) Create perl5.8 as an empty port that depends on perl5.8 and o ^^^^^^^ o > p5-math-bigint. o o I think you meant p5-base. Debian does something like that too Correct. o But I don't think a rename would be necessary. perl5.8 should o just depend on p5-math-bigint, if I understand correctly. I think there might b ea circular dependency problem the other way -- p5-math-bigint has to depend on perl5.8, so perl5.8 can't depend on p5-math-bigint. That's where the p5-base comes in. Breaks the cycle. The other question would be how to do this without breaking everybody's ports. Maybe we wait until the next release to introduce this scheme. -- Sal smile.