On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote:

> > PREFER_* is used by builtin.mk in the buildlink3.mk system.
> >
> > You can not use it to choose the "perl" you want.

> is there a way to fake installs yet?

"You don't do that for Perl."  Really.  No, honestly, trust me.  pkgsrc
*needs* its own copy of perl, and there's no way around that.

(The main issue is that most perl modules installed from pkgsrc will not
have correct PLISTs -- and thus can't be properly installed or deinstalled.
There are other issues, but suffice it to say that pkgsrc cannot, and will
not, support an external perl.)

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