Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:49:31 +0200 From: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD port devel/p5-Getopt-Long, unneeded as Getopt::Long is bundled with perl? Message-ID: <6dee9c3c7ff5a40e54fc6d42ac934625@mailbox.ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <CAO7rfHETv8pAGU-YHTXXKv5CE9=RKN1%2B-%2Bs2LWedD=OTBu3LOQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20160327215719.GO45285@hades.panopticon> <CAO7rfHETv8pAGU-YHTXXKv5CE9=RKN1%2B-%2Bs2LWedD=OTBu3LOQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2016-03-28 15:00, Lars Thegler wrote:
> On 27 March 2016 at 23:57, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> wrote:
>> and the devel/p5-Getopt-Long seems to be unneeded. So, don't we
>> need to remove ${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-Getopt-Long dependency lines
>
> Just be careful with these dual-life modules. The versions of modules
> bundled with the distributions are almost always older than the
> versions on CPAN, and thus the versions in ports. So, a bugfix in e.g.
> Getopt::Long will only be distributed to FreeBSD users if there is an
> explicit dependency listed in the Makefile.
> /Lars
Or the other way around: the version bundled with perl is newer than
the one in ports, which is neglected and stale - which is really bad
when some other port specifies a module in ports as its dependency,
overriding the core module.
Mark
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