On 29 September 2013 09:14, Martin Vaeth <va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>wrote:
> this dependency will install for a user with > unstable keywords > That, in itself, indicates the user is usually OK with "new versions of things" ;) corelist -a says virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.520.0 should || ( perl v5.18 ) Though that virtual is already stable, and as a result, will result in the installation of that version of Digest::MD5 on perl versions <5.17 2.530.0 won't be in perl till 5.19+ One other reason you might want to consider that its *good* that we upgrade things from perl to versions in perl-core/*. CVEs. If a security hole is exposed in a version of something that is shipped with perl, we can simply adjust the virtual and get it to pull in a newer version via perl-core/* Here, the "unnecessary" dependency could in fact be nessecary to avoid a security hole in an older version that may be shipped with perl. And in such a case, its "good" that installing foo, that depends on "virtual/perl-SOMETHINGBROKEN" gets you a version more recent than in perl itself. -- Kent
