Re: RFC - p5-* dependencies and Perl core modules

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi,

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:34:08 +0900, Ulrich Habel <rhaen%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:

> We do have some packages which have p5-Archive-Tar as dependency for
> example: mail/spamassasin (from the Makefile)
>
> DEPENDS+=   p5-Archive-Tar>=1.23:../../archivers/p5-Archive-Tar
>
>
> This makes no sense to me and I would like to remove those
> dependencies as they are not needed. This would help us to remove
> unneeded dependencies from pkgsrc and will help to build software
> better, faster and more reliable. We should keep the p5 packages such
> as Archive-Tar if someone wants to use a newer version for whatever
> purposes, however, we should remove dependencies when they are not
> needed.
>
>
> Any opinions on this?
>
> I would like to prepare a list of packages and their Makefile which
> will be changed for your comments.
>
>
>
> Hints:
> The list of coremodules shipped with Perl can be generated by:
>
> corelist -v v5.14.2 (our version we have in pkgsrc)

(Oh, I didn't realize such command!)
From `corelist -a Archive::Tar', Archive::Tar is first released with perl 
v5.9.3 as 1.26_01.
So for spamassasin, dependency pattern should be changed as following:

DEPENDS+=   {perl>=5.9.3,p5-Archive-Tar>=1.23}:../../archivers/p5-Archive-Tar

I feel that we can improve pkglint(1) to warn about such dependency and rise 
suggested pattern.

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