#16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f) -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: febeling@macports.org | Owner: sal@email.arc.nasa.gov Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: | Port: p5-mac-carbon -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- The cause is a dependency "port:p5-test-simple". p5-test-simple overwrites files of the perl5.8 installation, and this causes the failure, if -f is not present. (test-simple depends on p5-test-harness, and that has the same problem as test-simple). It seems that p5-mac-carbon does not really need the port p5-test-simple, so it should be removed as a dependency. There were other ports which declared test-simple as a dependency even though they didn't really need it, and this is probably just another case. Port p5-test-simple does not provide additional packages, but rather an update of perl5.8 components. So only ports which depend on these updates have to use p5-test-simple. Many may well work without, even if they use Test::Simple package. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16551> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS