On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:13:36AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Maybe an additional Conflicts: perl-5.004-suid would work? > > Why? There's no conflict there.
Maybe I got something wrong... sorry. > > I don't know what's the point of having two versions of perl included, > > anyway. Will anyone actually use the old version, when no modules are > > compiled against it and it might cause newer code depending on just perl5 to > > break? > > - people might want to test code on perl-5.004 to see if it works > there as well as on perl-5.005 or perl-5.6. Since it is possible > to have multiple versions of perl on a machine, it would make sense > to allow it. Yeah, but how many people will actually need this? Is it worth it? > - if newer code needs perl-5.005, it should have a "use 5.005;" or > "require 5.005;" pragma in the code, and the package should Depend: > perl-5.005 | perl-5.6 (or whatever). Right, I meant unable to load modules while running under perl-5.004, see my reply to Steve's message... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
