how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

Mon Mar 1 01:45:27 UTC 2010

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> writes:

Adam> Can you attach your make.conf?

    WITHOUT_X11=yes
    # added by use.perl 2010-02-28 17:41:39
    PERL_VERSION=5.10.1

The problem is not ports, it's packages.  If a package specifies 5.8,
it installs the 5.8 package, and I'm toast.  So make.conf doesn't matter.

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