Port dependencies on p5-Test-*

Lars Balker Rasmussen lars at balker.dk
Tue Feb 26 19:14:15 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:08:23AM -0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote:
> 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.

Naturally, because it'd break far too many things, we can't remove e.g.
Test::More from core unless we add a dependency on p5-Test-Simple - except
that p5-Test-Simply implicitly depends on perl.
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Lars Balker Rasmussen                                        Consult::Perl


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