Re: removing useless dependencies

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 10:10:49AM -0400, Matt Sporleder wrote:
 > > Quite a lot of perl packages have dependencies like these:
 > > 
 > > {perl>=5.10.1,p5-Test-Simple>=0.88}
 > > 
 > > i.e. either a "new enough" perl, or the separate package.
 > > 
 > > Since pkgsrc forces a "new enough" perl anyway, i.e., always the
 > > latest, I don't see much point in maintaining these. Does anyone else?
 > > 
 > > If not, I suggest removing them.
 > > Thomas
 > 
 > Doesn't this prevent a forced rebuild on perl upgrade?

No...? It will still have

  perl>=5.22.0 => perl-5.22.0
  perl<5.24.0 => perl-5.22.0

regardless of what additional rules the package adds.

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David A. Holland
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