[MacPorts] #46322: p5-*: consistently remove Perl versions 5.8-5.14

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#46322: p5-*: consistently remove Perl versions 5.8-5.14
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  Reporter:  mojca@…      |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:               |
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Comment (by larryv@…):

 Replying to [comment:23 mojca@…]:
 > Still, that's not an excuse for making inefficient programs. Yes, it's
 > 2014, but I still wonder why it takes so much time to run "`sudo port
 > selfupdate`", even though way more annoying part is that "`sudo port
 > uninstall foo`" takes "forever" without any good reason (`sudo port
 > install foo` is a lot faster). Sometimes I then try to keep
 > uninstalling ports and it's soooooo annoying that I need to wait
 > a couple of minutes between running two commands, so that I forget in
 > the meantime what it was that I wanted to do in the first place.
 >
 > There are a lot of other commands in MacPorts that take way too much
 > time for my taste (`port list ...` being one of them). Being in 2014
 > should be merely an excuse for having a lot of tool available to speed
 > things up.

 Agreed all around, although those examples are all about running-time
 performance and not storage, which I still maintain is cheap these days.

 But here’s a compromise: Breaking our rules and using tabs saves about 30
 KB, and forcing a tab width of 8 maintains my precious columns.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46322#comment:34>
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