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Hello<br>
<br>
I recently reported what I thought was a bug in macports,<br>
but was in fact a misunderstanding on my part.<br>
Here is my report (<font color="#009900">in green</font>) and the
response to it (<font color="#3333ff">in blue</font>) (between =====
marks)<br>
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<pre wrap=""><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#009900"><b>port install perl5 -perl5_16 +perl5_22</b>
seems to work (perl executables linked to perl5.22 partners)
but then:
<b>port deps perl5</b>
reports the following
Full Name: perl5 @5.16.3_0+perl5_16
Library Dependencies: perl5.16</font>
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<font color="#3333ff">Comment:
This is behaving correctly. <b>port deps perl5</b> shows the dependencies of
the perl5 port in its default configuration, which currently means
with the +perl5_16 variant. You have installed the port with the +perl5_22
variant, so if you would like to see the dependencies of that variant, you
need to run <b>port deps perl5 +perl5_22</b>.</font></pre>
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So I misunderstood the meaning of <b>port defs.<br>
</b>Thanks for the response.<br>
<br>
But then how would I, say months down the road,<br>
would I then be able to determine what variant of<br>
perl5 I actually have installed on my system?<br>
I don't see a command to do that.<br>
<br>
It doesn't seem to me that reporting<br>
<font color="#666600">perl5_16</font> to be default variant of <font
color="#666600">perl5</font> is <br>
that useful (I could find that by<br>
<b>port variants perl5</b> could I not?)<br>
<br>
Doutbtless I am not the first to have this misconception<br>
although I did a search on perl5 and variants in the<br>
archives. Sorry if this is a topic that has been hashed<br>
and rehashed forever.<br>
<br>
<br>
Rob Stevens<br>
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