From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 26 19:08:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205CB106567C for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:08:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leeym@leeym.com) Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D060813C455 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:08:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leeym@leeym.com) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id h53so1738857hsh.11 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:08:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.101.71.16 with SMTP id y16mr4643883ank.0.1204052903780; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.172.11 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:08:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <759236930802261108p56a42b46qfb4296ce764b130c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:08:23 -0800 From: "Yen-Ming Lee" To: Parv , "Anton Berezin" , ports@freebsd.org, perl@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080226170100.GA1394@holstein.holy.cow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> Cc: Subject: Re: Port dependencies on p5-Test-* X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:08:25 -0000 2008/2/26, Parv : > in message <20080226122512.GA30778@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. -- Yen-Ming Lee