On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:51:07AM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 13:08 Mon 02 Mar , Torsten Veller wrote: > > Currently the eclass doesn't set any dependencies. If it is used the > > ebuild has to depend on perl if needed. > > > > > > I see the following options: Perl modules by definition need dev-lang/perl installed to build (Makefile.PL is written in Perl).
How many Perl modules can be installed with a Perl that is built with USE=build? > Having not spent a lot of time thinking about this, I'm guessing the use > case of concern is packages that have an optional perl module always > pulling in dev-lang/perl. This would apparently be relevant on an > embedded system that lacked perl but required a package with an optional > perl module. To handle that miniscule use case, I'd tend to go with a > conditional variable (GENTOO_PERL="no"?) that defaults to "yes". Yes, this would be needed in any case, similar to how it's done for stuff that had optional X dependencies. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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