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Nicholas Clark
Date:
September 29, 2003 12:26
Subject:
Re: Hidden dependencies?
Message ID:
20030929202618.J34877@plum.flirble.org
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:20:52PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:

>      perl(v5.6.0) is needed by perl58-5.8.1-1jv
> 
> Apparently, some core modules need (require, use) non-core modules. 
> While not stricktly speaking a problem, it may be something to
> consider enhancing. 

That one smells like a bug in their tools. I suspect that it can't cope
with the V strings such as:

lib/Attribute/Handlers/demo/MyClass.pm:use v5.6.0;
lib/Attribute/Handlers/demo/demo.pl:use v5.6.0;
lib/Attribute/Handlers/demo/demo2.pl:use v5.6.0;
lib/Attribute/Handlers/t/multi.t:use v5.6.0;
lib/Attribute/Handlers.pm:      require v5.6.0;

Nicholas Clark

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