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From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
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Subject: Re: Reduce dependency for p5-WWW-Mechanize*
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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