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

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:49 AM, N_Ox wrote:
> Le 5 févr. 08 à 16:13, Daniel J. Luke a écrit :
>> We really need to do one of a couple of things:
>>
>> - Change the perl port to install a minimum perl along with  
>> individual ports for each of the CORE modules
>> - Change the @INC ordering (thus making our perl act differently  
>> from the upstream perl and potentially break any ports that rely on  
>> the current behavior of @INC ordering)
>> - Force users to set $PERL5LIB and/or patch everything to use a  
>> custom $PERL5LIB
>>
>> Since there are serious drawbacks to each approach, and no one  
>> seems to have had time to work out a complete solution, we're stuck  
>> with the status-quo
>>
>> I'm sure everyone would be happy if you have an implementation of  
>> one of those solutions (or something else that's better) available  
>> for all of us to use.
>
> I disagree, the @INC modification doesn't have serious drawbacks,  
> other software-management systems like Gentoo Portage works great  
> with this method.


It's the transition that's a problem (since we don't actually test our  
ports we can't verify that we won't break lots of things).

Changing the @INC order will change which modules get loaded for  
things already installed and working,

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Daniel J. Luke
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