Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #46057, comment 8
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Ticket #46057, comment 8
initial v1 1 1 As stated in [https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46057#comment:5 comment5], the use of variants to try and resolve activation conflicts between the various subports is inappropriate. In addition, the specification of a perl default is redundant as this is already handled by the perl5 portgroup. 2 2 3 The more traditional way to resolve the conflicts is to fix the port to install any binaries in ${perl5.bindir}. This variable defaultsis set by the perl5 portgroup to the versioned directory ${prefix}/libexec/perl${perl5.major}. When binaries exist in this directory, the portgroup automatically creates versioned symbolic links to them in ${prefix}/bin resolving possible conflicts.3 The more traditional way to resolve the conflicts is to fix the port to install any binaries in ${perl5.bindir}. This variable's default is set by the perl5 portgroup to the versioned directory ${prefix}/libexec/perl${perl5.major}. When binaries exist in this directory, the portgroup automatically creates versioned symbolic links to them in ${prefix}/bin resolving possible conflicts. 4 4 5 5 In addition, there are some miscellaneous issues with the port's Makefile that can be handled more simply by patching the Makefile directly. These include the creation of required installation directories in ${destroot} and enabling the installation of html documentation which is