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> References: <86zltpzrxt.fsf@ds4.des.no> <759236930802242324o614598d1i1a8ca3cc8c12478c@mail.gmail.com> <86prulibf4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <759236930802250245j646f5be5k8382bedbfb2a7c1e@mail.gmail.com> <868x19i6ky.fsf@ds4.des.no> <759236930802251702h694c4f5bn2c7c87c7c47c7cc@mail.gmail.com> <20080226122512.GA30778@heechee.tobez.org> <20080226170100.GA1394@holstein.holy.cow> <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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