* Just to show that this actually does happen, this is from my
pacman.log:
The following official packages can be removed since the modules are
now included in the standard perl library:
perl-archive-tar perl-compress-raw-zlib perl-compress-zlib
perl-extutils-cbuilder perl-io-compress-base perl-io-compress-zlib
perl-io-zlib perl-module-pluggable perl-pod-escapes perl-pod-simple
perl-module-build perl-version
These community packages are also included in the standard perl library:
perl-archive-extract perl-cpanplus perl-digest-sha perl-file-fetch
perl-extutils-parsexs perl-ipc-cmd perl-locale-maketext-simple
perl-log-message perl-log-message-simple perl-module-corelist
perl-module-load perl-module-load-conditional perl-module-loaded
perl-module-pluggable perl-object-accessor perl-params-check
perl-term-ui perl-time-piece
As you can see, things do change and having explicit dependencies will
only prevent breakage.
I'm +1, but don't feel very strongly about this.
I see that it's more complex than what we have now, but I think the
world of perl dependencies is pretty complex, and the existing system
isn't great at handling either. Modeling it in this more complete way
and mirroring the upstream model seems like a good long-term choice in
terms of reducing work for packagers.
- P
