FreeBSD port devel/p5-Getopt-Long, unneeded as Getopt::Long is bundled with perl?

Lars Thegler lars at thegler.dk
Mon Mar 28 13:00:26 UTC 2016


On 27 March 2016 at 23:57, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> wrote:
> and the devel/p5-Getopt-Long seems to be unneeded. So, don't we
> need to remove ${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-Getopt-Long dependency lines

Just be careful with these dual-life modules. The versions of modules
bundled with the distributions are almost always older than the
versions on CPAN, and thus the versions in ports. So, a bugfix in e.g.
Getopt::Long will only be distributed to FreeBSD users if there is an
explicit dependency listed in the Makefile.

/Lars


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