RFE: modify use of perl in curl-ca-bundle

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Attached is a proposal to modify the use of perl in curl-ca-bundle.
The changes are:

• perl5 would be the default perl port (as described in #16830).
• p5-mime-base64 does not seem to be needed (Perl 5.8.8 seems to provied the package).
• Make it explicit which perl is being used.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Do we need that patch to explicitly use "${prefix}/bin/path"? Just "perl", as the script uses today, should be fine, since MacPorts puts ${prefix}/bin first in the PATH when it runs.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

In my recent port changes, I have been trying to incorporate explicit setting of the perl being used.
My concern is for the future.
If, for example, it turns out a port needed ${prefix}/bin/perl5.10 or ${prefix}/bin/perl5.8, then it would make the change much easier.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I changed the dependencies as you suggested in r41708. I'll forgo the patch for now; if the time comes in the future that we need to use a different perl, we can patch it then.

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