Reduce dependency for p5-WWW-Mechanize*

Jun Kuriyama kuriyama at imgsrc.co.jp
Sat Oct 16 02:10:13 PDT 2004


At Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:48:21 +0200,
Lars Thegler wrote:
> 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 ;)

I usually checks version dependency in Makefile.PL.  If some module
requires newer version of other module, it should be noted so in
Makefile.PL.


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