From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 09:10:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BD416A4CF for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:10:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from black.imgsrc.co.jp (black.imgsrc.co.jp [210.226.20.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDF643D1F for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:10:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by black.imgsrc.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AF750C12 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:10:11 +0900 (JST) Received: from black.imgsrc.co.jp (black.imgsrc.co.jp [IPv6:2001:218:422:2::9999]) by black.imgsrc.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71F850BFE for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:10:09 +0900 (JST) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:10:09 +0900 Message-ID: <7mr7nz58r2.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> From: Jun Kuriyama To: perl@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <4170E055.3020503@thegler.dk> References: <7mr7o07q1x.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <4170E055.3020503@thegler.dk> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd 0.1 Subject: Re: Reduce dependency for p5-WWW-Mechanize* X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:10:13 -0000 At Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:48:21 +0200, Lars Thegler wrote: > 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 ;) I usually checks version dependency in Makefile.PL. If some module requires newer version of other module, it should be noted so in Makefile.PL. -- Jun Kuriyama // IMG SRC, Inc. // FreeBSD Project