On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 12:18 Europe/Brussels, Daniel Macks wrote:
I'm not sure I understand, so this paragraph could be irrelevant, but...1) It are just the 'xyz' pm's that have to be rebuild for a new perl version.
That sounds like it would mean that every perl I have would have the same
modules installed. That might be nice in that no matter which perl I used,
I'd have everything present, but that's not always desireable. For large
slow-building ones that I only need to use (vs. develop against) and with
a simple dependency tree, all I need is *some* version that has it (that's
the whole point of unversioned -pm deps). And it's not even always
possible (may not work with an old perl, etc.). More importantly, this
would mean that building a new perl on one's machine would somehow have to
force building of all the -pm that are already existing for other versions
for the new one.
Eg, there are only 36 pm580's, out of a total of maybe close to 200 pm's.
2) And in fact, you can still cut this down rather sharply _ to just those among
them on which some other unversioned pm you have installed would Depend
_ by not installing the corresponding bundle-pm for the others.
3) And if this is still too much _ that you are content to have eg a perl580
for occasional experimenting, and basically 'naked', doing most of your
work with some other version _, then just install perl580-core, not perl580,
and you're completely free.
Consider a package for
pure-perl program (that can run under any perl) foo that needs a compiled
perl module bar.pm. I really want to have
foo: Depends: bar-pm
This is exactly what is proposed.. foo.pm remains simple, exactly as you write here, and the 36 or bar-pm's get a dependency scheme ensuring that you will indeed use bar-pmxyz whenever using perlxyz.
Hoping this helps to clarify things a bit,
Jean-Francois
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