I was curious about trying pkgviews, since I wanted to install perl 5.6
and 5.8 side by side. That is normally possible, but pkgsrc prevents it.
So I turned on pkgviews the quick-and-dirty way, that is without
deinstalling all packages that I already had (which is quite a lot).

To test it, I tried installing digest, and that worked ok.

So next I installed perl58, and that went not so well. It installed
almost all its files in the place that it normally would. Only 3 files
(static perl, perl5.8.3 and bsd.perl.mk) ended up somewhere under
/usr/pkg/packages/perl-5.8.3.

It also overwrote a bunch of files in /usr/pkg/bin, among which a
dynamic copy of perl. Fortunately no real harm is done, since Perl is
supposed to handle side by side installation of different versions
gracefully.

Is this because I cheated with pkgvieuws or is perl58 really broken for
pkgviews?

-Olaf.
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