Duplicate Perl 5.8 libraries

Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Sun Mar 8 22:07:10 PDT 2009


On 2009-03-08 18:22:46 +0100, Rainer Müller wrote:
> Adam Byrtek wrote:
> > When playing with dependencies for a new port that requires certain
> > CPAN libraries I found out that there are multiple p5 ports containing
> > libraries already included in perl5.8. I had this problem with the
> > following ports:
> > p5-time-hires
> > p5-text-balanced
> > p5-digest-md5
> 
> Please see the recent thread "perl5.8 fixup" where exactly this problem
> is currently discussed.

There's no explanation of why these dependencies are needed. So,
until any problem is found (which would be an upstream bug), these
dependencies should be removed.

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