p5-getopt-long and perl5.8 - activation error

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-02-05 09:35:38 -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> The only reason why that dependency should be specified is if the port  
> needs the newer version of that module than is provided by perl core. If 
> the dependency really isn't needed, perhaps you should open a ticket with 
> the port maintainer and get them to remove the dependency?

BTW, I did that for p5-archive-tar, but bug #13745 is still open after
more than a month...

Also, non-core versions of core modules should be seen as development
versions, so that ports should never depend on them (does anyone have
any example where this is necessary?).

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