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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:14:12 +0100
From:      Lars Balker Rasmussen <lars@balker.dk>
To:        Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@leeym.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, perl@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port dependencies on p5-Test-*
Message-ID:  <20080226191412.GO13264@tux.nerdheaven.dk>
In-Reply-To: <759236930802261108p56a42b46qfb4296ce764b130c@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen                                        Consult::Perl



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