PERL_LEVEL conditional dependencies

[Lars Thegler]

Hi all,

I'm a bit worried about the continuing tendency to put *_DEPENDS into 
PERL_LEVEL conditionals, the latest example of which is PR 70290.

IMHO this is wrong for all modules on CPAN, which are also in the perl 
distribution, because if the module is updated on CPAN to something 
newer than it is in the distribution, it will not get installed (and 
thereby updated) in such a conditional dependency.

Maybe this situation would be better, if there was a passage in the 
Porter's Handbook explaining this - or am I fighting windmills here?


/Lars