Redundant p5- libraries

Marcus Calhoun-Lopez mcalhoun at macports.org
Wed Apr 1 14:28:23 PDT 2009


Now that the very useful change of reversing @INC has been made r48955,
will there be a rule of thumb for p5 dependencies already provided by perl5?

Option 1: Only have the dependency if the newer version is needed.
Option 2: If the package is needed, included it as a dependency even if the
                        base package is sufficient.
Option 3: No rule of thumb on this matter.

I would personally be in favor of Option 1 since it would lead to fewer surprises
for users.
As much as possible, the packages requested by the user is the one provided
by the base perl5.

-Marcus



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