Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:40 AM, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> I really wish that versions and dependencies were expressed at the distro >>> level rather than the module/package level. Allowing multiple version >>> numbers >>> within an atomic unit of installation doesn't make sense. >> >> I agree. Now all we need is a DeLorean, a flux capacitor and 1.21 >> gigawatts. > > *chuckle* > > It's possible to overlay a package management system on top of > Perl5/CPAN which uses distro-level dependency specification. I don't > know the gory details, but isn't that what apt-get, rpm, etc do?
It is. And it *only* is about the details. And gory. And the "who". Not the band nor the Dr. but the "who will do and maintain it". So we are back to David Golden's proposal involving 1.21 gigawatt. :-) Kind regards, Steffen -- Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net> Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>
