Reduce dependency for p5-WWW-Mechanize*
Lars Thegler
lars at thegler.dk
Sat Oct 16 01:48:01 PDT 2004
Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> Hi again, :-)
>
> More dependency reducing here:
While I understand the motivation for dependency reduction, I have a
feeling that, in the case of Perl modules, this is the wrong direction
to go. I agree, that for instance, Pod::Parser v1.14 is currently
included in lang/perl5.8. But what should happen, when this module is
updated on CPAN, and textproc/p5-PodParser is updated? IMHO, the user
would want the module to be updated. But if there is no dependency, the
port is not installed, and the module is not updated. I agree, that we
can remove the dependency now, but then we should reinsert it when
textproc/p5-PodParser is updated, and I do not see that happening ;)
/Lars
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