perl5 AND perl5.8 ?

[Scott Webster]

2011/3/1 Erwan David <erwan at rail.eu.org>:
>        I never explicitely installed perl, it came from dependencies.
> Today port outdated says:
> perl5                          5.8.9_0 < 5.12.3_0
> perl5.8                        5.8.9_3 < 5.8.9_4
>
> What should I do ?
>
> I doubt having perl 5.8 and perl 5.12 will be okay...

I would probably wait and not upgrade those packages until after the
whole perl thing is sorted out.  If you upgrade now there is a good
chance that some of your software will stop working.

Alternatively you could switch perl5 to use the perl5_8 variant; or
upgrade it as is (which will switch to perl5.12) and then recompile
all of your p5-* ports.

Scott