Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: virtual/perl-Filter

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2014, 12:57:59 schrieb Kent Fredric:
> On 8 July 2014 06:59, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > # Filter never was part of core Perl, no idea why we have a virtual.
> > # It was moved from perl-core to dev-perl and the virtual will be
> > # removed. Please depend on dev-perl/Filter directly.
> > virtual/perl-Filter
> 
> 
> This is annoying, because anything that uses *other* than
> filter::util::call *must* install the CPAN version.  But anything that uses
> Filter::Util::Call on its own can do so from Perl itself.
> 
> Its also annoying because the "cpan distribution" that ships that module is
> called "Filter" on CPAN, but "Filter-Util-Call" in perl/cpan/*

In the end what this means is that IF we need to depend on it, we need a 
virtual Filter-Util-Call ... which *can* also pull in dev-util/Filter.

Of course this might get painful if version numbers are randomized.

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