Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:15:36 -0800 From: "Yen-Ming Lee" <leeym@leeym.com> To: Parv <parv@pair.com>, "Anton Berezin" <tobez@tobez.org>, ports@freebsd.org, perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port dependencies on p5-Test-* Message-ID: <759236930802261115x29f5d564m829bd3fe60713fc8@mail.gmail.com> 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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2008/2/26, Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@leeym.com>: > 2008/2/26, Parv <parv@pair.com>: > > > 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. > Oops.. it will become a loop dependency.. perl modules depend on core perl, and core perl depend on the modules removed from core... It looks not practical. -- Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@leeym.com>
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