So, I’m installing ruby on my laptop, and when I get to the step to install rb-rubygems, MacPorts installs perl5 as a dependency.
Why would a ruby tool require perl? My initial googling provided nothing damning. Certainly, it’s not because gems is written in perl… Nope, just checked the gems file to be sure, and it’s bonafide ruby.
What gives?
house of haug 
One ring to rule them all!
It’s reminding you that ruby is simply an inferior perl wannabe 🙂
Found rich’s blog looking for something work related, and ended up over here! You can’t get away now. 😉
I’m watching “sudo port install rb-rubygems” install perl5.8 right now. Did you find an answer to the question yet?
FYI, found the answer on this blog. Seems gems now depends on autoconf depends on perl5.8.