Re: removing useless dependencies

[David Sainty <david.sainty%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 6 July 2015 at 07:52, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:

> What if Perl 5.42 removes Test::Simple from Core?
> If you retain that "useless" dependency line, you have a documentation
> on which modules need Test::Simple

Sure, so comment them out. I'd really like to move away from the Perl
alternatives here, they had been occassionally broken as well, when
the package had a higher version than Perl...

I'm not really sure what the advantage of removing them wholesale on principle is though.  "Occasionally broken" doesn't feel like a strong argument - lots of things are occasionally broken, and then they are fixed.