Re: bug: databases/p5-MLDBM requires p5-Data-Dumper

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost>]

Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>  >> databases/p5-MLDBM requires p5-Data-Dumper which is absent in pkgsrc tree.
>  >> There are no any package with such PKGBASE.
>  >> 
>  >> Can anybody fix?
>  >> 
>  >> databases/p5-MLDBM/Makefile:
>  >>     14
>  >>     15  DEPENDS+=       
> {p5-Data-Dumper>=2.08,perl{,-thread}>=5.6.1nb2}:../../lang/perl5
>  >>     16
>  >> 
>> Data::Dumper in version 2.121_14 is in the perl-core of perl-5.10. See
>> Module::CoreList for more details.
> 
> And where is the package with name p5-Data-Dumper?
> 
> pkg_info.1:
>    ...
>    PACKAGE WILDCARDS
>      In the places where a PACKAGE name/version is expected, e.g. for the -e
>      switch, several forms can be used.  Either use a PACKAGE NAME with or
>      without version, or specify a PACKAGE WILDCARD that gets matched against
>      all installed PACKAGES.
> 
>      Package wildcards use fnmatch(3).  In addition, csh(1) style {,} alter-
>      nates have been implemented.
>      ...
> 
The point is: there is no problem: an installed perl satisfies that
requirement. When I have time I remove the p5-Data-Dumper dependency.

Jens