minimal perl

[tobster]

hi,

i like to test ebuilds and i often have the problem that there is only a minimal perl set installed (see below for an example). perl, however, is hard masked to avoid collisions. my questions are:

- what is the preferred way (under osx+gentoo) to install a full perl?
- how bad can i break my system by forcing emerge dev-lang/perl?

thanx!

env ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc-macos" emerge -a ethereal

[...]
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.14 to /
>>> md5 files ;-) ethereal-0.10.13-r2.ebuild
>>> md5 files ;-) ethereal-0.10.14.ebuild
>>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-ethereal-0.10.13-r2
>>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-ethereal-0.10.14
>>> md5 files ;-) files/ethereal-0.10.13-fix-irc-loop-DoS-CVE-2005-3313.diff
>>> md5 files ;-) files/ethereal-0.10.13-packet-ospf.diff
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) ethereal-0.10.14.tar.bz2
* ethereal will not build if dev-lang/perl is compiled with
* USE=minimal. Rebuild dev-lang/perl with USE=-minimal and try again.

!!! ERROR: net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.14 failed.
!!! Function pkg_setup, Line 42, Exitcode 0
!!! dev-lang/perl compiled with USE=minimal
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

[rl03]

Try asking mcummings or cpw in #gentoo-perl on freenode.