needing install OpenOffice.org without messing up perl

[Scott Bennett]

     Finally getting back to this...sigh...
     On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:10:54 -0400 Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu> writes:
>
>>      What is the best way to install OpenOffice.org from a package without
>> the installation trying to reinstall perl5.8 over perl5.10?
>
>Get a package that includes them?

     Do you have any suggestions of where to find such a beast?
>
>Short of that, you would have to install the package without
>dependencies.  There is a pkg_add option to do this, but the 

     Sure, but OOo is so huge and requires so much other stuff
that there is almost certainly something it wants installed that
I do not already have installed.

>trick comes afterwards, when you have to fix it up to use the 
>perl you actually have (perl-after-upgrade(1) might be able to
>handle this, but you have no guarantees.).  Or you could just 

     Why wouldn't OOo, once installed, simply use whatever were
installed as /usr/local/bin/perl?
     It seems to me that the bigger worry it that portmaster may
try to rebuild it whenever a -a option is used.  portmanager, OTOH,
has a -u option that might do the job.  portupgrade, of course,
can have all sorts of things blocked from upgrading by putting the
proper magic into /etc/portupgrade.conf.  If only portmaster had
a similar way of doing things.  Since so many people now advocate
using either portmanager or portmaster to do general upgrades (-a),
rather than portupgrade -a, I guess portmanager is the only method
available to keep OOo from being rebuilt whenever one of its
dependencies gets upgraded.

>install both perl versions; they should be able to coexist 
>just fine.
>
     That would be nice and reasonably simple if it were an option.
Unfortunately, the two versions are incompatible.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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