Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:28:54 +0200 From: Lars Thegler <lars@thegler.dk> To: freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.org Subject: PERL_LEVEL conditional dependencies Message-ID: <4119E6D6.5030104@thegler.dk>
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Hi all, I'm a bit worried about the continuing tendency to put *_DEPENDS into PERL_LEVEL conditionals, the latest example of which is PR 70290. IMHO this is wrong for all modules on CPAN, which are also in the perl distribution, because if the module is updated on CPAN to something newer than it is in the distribution, it will not get installed (and thereby updated) in such a conditional dependency. Maybe this situation would be better, if there was a passage in the Porter's Handbook explaining this - or am I fighting windmills here? /Lars
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