[Bug 221770] textproc/p5-XML-Parser: build fails: /usr/local/bin/perl5.24.2 not found

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--- Comment #2 from MMacD <scratch65535 at att.net> ---
(In reply to Jan Beich from comment #1)
No, it fails because it can't find bin/perl5.24.2.  And given the 345,678 p5
ports listed, I've no clue which one would populate that subtree.

One of the things I've noticed is that config options never include the choice
of excluding some functionality, xml or sound or some other thing, completely. 
The only options are what *kind* of sound or xml or whatever.  I haven't
counted, but Firefox must have at least 100 dependencies, few of which have
much to do with fetching and displaying web pages (what critical role does perl
play, for example?).  And because of the huge number of non-optional "options",
and the lack of resources to do QA, it's a crapshoot whether something will
build without bugs, or even at all. 

Maybe it would be good policy to coarsen the granularity of the config choices?
Offer them at the functional level, not the mere-flavoring one?

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