New perl, why not: perl-after-upgrade (Heino Tiedemann)

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On Thu, 19 May 2011, freebsd-ports-request at freebsd.org wrote:

> Today's Topics:
>   19. New perl, why not: perl-after-upgrade (Heino Tiedemann)
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> Message: 19
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:30:13 +0200
> From: Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap at gmx.de>
> Subject: New perl, why not: perl-after-upgrade
> To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
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> Hi,
> 
> Is there e reason why in ports/UPDATING is this mentioned:
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> ,----[ 20110517 ]
> | 0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety): pkgdb -Ff
> | 1) Reinstall new version of Perl (5.14): env DISABLE_CONFLICTS=1 portupgrade ...
> | 2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl: ...
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> and not this:
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> ,----[ man perl-after-upgrade ]
> | The standard procedure after a perl port (lang/perl5.X) upgrade is to
> | basically reinstall all other packages that depend on perl.  This is
> | always a painful exercise.  The perl-after-upgrade utility makes this
> | process mostly unnecessary.
> `----
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> 
> Heino