From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 26 19:15:37 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 352931065678 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leeym@leeym.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E437A13C461 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leeym@leeym.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so557517anc.13 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.57.6 with SMTP id f6mr1650102ana.20.1204053336164; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.172.11 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:15:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <759236930802261115x29f5d564m829bd3fe60713fc8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:15:36 -0800 From: "Yen-Ming Lee" To: Parv , "Anton Berezin" , ports@freebsd.org, perl@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <759236930802261108p56a42b46qfb4296ce764b130c@mail.gmail.com> 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> <759236930802261108p56a42b46qfb4296ce764b130c@mail.gmail.com> Cc: 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 19:15:37 -0000 2008/2/26, Yen-Ming Lee : > 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. > 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