Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:57:29 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> To: Lars Thegler <lars@thegler.dk>, Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> Cc: perl@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Reduce dependency for p5-WWW-Mechanize* Message-ID: <A076578BA25CFE93284F716A@cc-147.int.t-online.fr> In-Reply-To: <4170E055.3020503@thegler.dk> References: <7mr7o07q1x.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <4170E055.3020503@thegler.dk>
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+-le 16/10/2004 10:48 +0200, Lars Thegler =E9crivait : | Jun Kuriyama wrote: |> Hi again, :-) |>=20 |> More dependency reducing here: |=20 | While I understand the motivation for dependency reduction, I have a | feeling that, in the case of Perl modules, this is the wrong direction to | go. I agree, that for instance, Pod::Parser v1.14 is currently included in | lang/perl5.8. But what should happen, when this module is updated on CPAN, | and textproc/p5-PodParser is updated? IMHO, the user would want the module | to be updated. But if there is no dependency, the port is not installed, | and the module is not updated. I agree, that we can remove the dependency | now, but then we should reinsert it when textproc/p5-PodParser is updated, | and I do not see that happening ;) If that happens, the committer updating will have the task to update all deending ports :-) Likewise, a newer version of Test::Harness is out.. :-) --=20 Mathieu Arnold
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