Port dependencies on p5-Test-*

Yen-Ming Lee leeym at leeym.com
Tue Feb 26 19:15:37 UTC 2008


2008/2/26, Yen-Ming Lee <leeym at leeym.com>:
> 2008/2/26, Parv <parv at pair.com>:
>
> > in message <20080226122512.GA30778 at heechee.tobez.org>, wrote Anton
>  >  Berezin thusly...
>  >  >
>  >  ...
>  >
>  > > I almost wish to rip off dual-life modules from our cores to
>  >  > simplify situation.
>  >
>  > Oh, that would be most wonderful (if not only to keep only one
>  >  (latest) version of module)!
>  >
>
> Unless we make cores themselves depend on those modules removed from cores.
>
>  If we simply remove the dual-life modules from cores, it will differs
>  FreeBSD-perl from other platforms and may confuse the users and the
>  perl developers. For example, some scripts get everything needed and
>  work well under perl 5.8.8 on Linux, but on FreeBSD they die due to
>  the missing dependencies, and users need to figure out that which ones
>  are missing and installed them separately.
>

Oops.. it will become a loop dependency.. perl modules depend on core
perl, and core perl depend on the modules removed from core...

It looks not practical.

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Yen-Ming Lee <leeym at leeym.com>


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