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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