maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 227356] lang/perl5.26: suggestion to set DEFAULT_VERSIONS=perl5=5.26 does not work if perl5.24 installed

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Bug 227356: lang/perl5.26: suggestion to set DEFAULT_VERSIONS=perl5=5.26 does
not work if perl5.24 installed
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227356



--- Description ---
A pre-everything check in lang/perl5.26 suggest that the user can set
DEFAULT_VERSIONS=perl5=5.26 in make.conf to make perl5.26 install files as the
default perl (bin/perl, bin/perl5, etc.).  This fails if a different perl
(e.g., perl5.24) is already installed.

Even if this behavior is not changed, the wording of the pre-everything message
should probably be clarified to account for this case.