On 05/22/2011 15:19, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:57:56AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
What's the point?
Even minor versions of perl are stable, and odd numbers are the
development branches -- rather like the kernel of That Other Less-Free
OS.
It's updated frequently because it's being worked upon by such a large
development team now -- it's progress!
Chris
I think he's getting at the fact it's a PITA to rebuild everything so often,
especially when some of the large ports take so long to compile.
If you're happy with the version of perl that you have, stick with it.
In 99.9% of cases you don't need to rebuild everything that depends on
perl, you only need to rebuild things that stuff files in
/usr/local/lib/perl5/$oldversion and/or
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$oldversion.
hth,
Doug
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