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Subject: Re: lang/perl5 rename
From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Chris Stankevitz <
chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> According to /usr/ports/updating:
>
>   If you are NOT using the default version of Perl (as of right now, it is
>   5.20) you MUST add a line setting the version you are using to your
>   /etc/make.conf, to preserve /usr/local/bin/perl:
>
>   DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=    perl5=5.xx
>
> ===
>
> Background info:
>
> I couldn't care less about Perl but apparently some of my packages
> have installed it as a dependency.
>
> # pkg info | grep perl
> perl5.16-5.16.3_22             Practical Extraction and Report Language
>
> ===
>
> My question:
>
> 1. Am I using the default version of Perl? (Presumably I am not
> because UPDATING says the default version is 5.20 while I have 5.16
> installed)
>

5.16 was then the default at the time of your package install.  Be careful
to follow the rest of the UPDATING perl stuff as there are some significant
changes.



-- 
Adam