#50000: perl5: improve / reimplement packaging -----------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mojca@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: perl5 perl5.22 | -----------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by rjvbertin@…): I'm all for making the upgrade process as automatic as possible. One can end up with a lot of automatically installed p5* ports that are dependencies of other ports, and which the casual user won't be aware of. I know I already abhor having to update all those packages/ports (getting spamassassin to work again etc), and clean up those that are no longer required. I can only (but would rather not) dream of what that would be like for users for whom "perl" is just a misspelled bauble in search of its mother ;)
adds a bunch of (possibly broken) ports that will likely not be tested by maintainers.
I'd look at it this way: they're likely to be reported and thus tested if they become broken, and maintainers will take that bridge when they come to it. I'd not advocate that kind of approach for standalone ports. For ports that are generated automatically I don't really see a reason to start looking to fix things that may not be broken if the benefits of the automatisation are big enough. That doesn't mean that an automated test procedure wouldn't be a good thing to have. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50000#comment:8> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X