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From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
October 1, 2003 08:29
Subject:
Re: Hidden dependencies?
Message ID:
20031001152910.3428.2@llama.elixent.com
Fergal@Pop.Esatclear.Ie <fergal@esatclear.ie> writes:
>My email did contain a suggestion for helping them. Unless they're doing
>funny things, packages should be able to work out their own must haves and
>their own like to haves simply by knowing what modules will be publicly
>used or required and tracing from there on.
>
>I think adding "use if" to ToTk.pm doesn't make any sense because Tk is not
>an optional requirement for ToTk.pm, it's mandatory. ToTk is an optional
>requirement for perldoc but a "use if" would be no good there either
>because you only want to use Tk if the command line switches ask for it,
and presumably
use if $opt{...} ToTk;
is no good because %opt isn't set at BEGIN time?
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