From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 26 19:14:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F048D1065688; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:14:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lbr@nerdheaven.dk) Received: from tux.nerdheaven.dk (tux.nerdheaven.dk [193.88.12.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A947913C4CC; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:14:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lbr@nerdheaven.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tux.nerdheaven.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1985E3FF36; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:14:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from tux.nerdheaven.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tux.nerdheaven.dk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97872-07; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:14:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by tux.nerdheaven.dk (Postfix, from userid 1021) id 6B96B3FF4F; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:14:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:14:12 +0100 From: Lars Balker Rasmussen To: Yen-Ming Lee Message-ID: <20080226191412.GO13264@tux.nerdheaven.dk> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <759236930802261108p56a42b46qfb4296ce764b130c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at nerdheaven.dk Cc: ports@freebsd.org, perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port dependencies on p5-Test-* X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:14:15 -0000 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