On Dec 13, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Richard Tobin wrote:
As the error message says:
"You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port"
The problem is not that the error message isn't clear. It's that you don't expect to get error messages during port installations unless your port system is messed up. There's no indication that this particular error is expected.
hmmm... indeed - would it be possible to make a perl5.8 port that uses a perl5.8-minimal and all the modules that would otherwise need to overwrite parts of the perl5.8 port? Or could we make perl give the "vendor" modules a higher precedence? Does someone know which perl-ports need to replace parts of perl5.8? Rgards, -Markus -- Dipl. Inf. (FH) Markus W. Weissmann http://www.macports.org/ http://www.mweissmann.de/