<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" target="_blank">ryandesign@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think the perl5 portgroup is supposed to contain code now to make it easy to create perl variants, instead of having to write all this code to do it manually.</blockquote></div><br><div>eperl is not a Perl module though, it is a Perl *interpreter* (embedded Perl). The portgroup fits somewhat dubiously as a result, and it's easier to duplicate that part of the portgroup logic than to suppress or mutate all the rest of the portgroup's logic.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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