(putting fink-devel back in cc, so people can contradict/correct me ..) On 08 Jul 2010, at 01:27, Scott Hannahs wrote:
> > On Jul 6, 2010, at 20:11, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > >> Please DON'T use "system-perl" ! this causes havoc on systems (like >> mine, x86-64/10.5) >> where there is no "system-perl", so to user has to manually >> intervene for any such >> pkg to switch the deps to something universally available ! (Or try >> hacking for himself, >> as I finally did in despair, an appropriate "system-perl" info file >> (of type "bundle") >> to get rid of those problems.. but that's extremely unsafe >> probably: depepending on >> some perlXYZ-core may not be sufficient, while depending on perlXYZ >> might block any >> possibility, for other pkgs, to switch between different perl >> versions..) >> >> So _ please avoid system-perl like hell: it is a hornet's nest ! > > The "hornet's nest" seems to be following the documentation.... I know it does, and is used by a number of pkgs > We need to document that this is a wrong approach and put it out > there or folks like me will just blindly see a feature and use it. There are probably not that many users of systems where system-perl is not available, and one might argue that they should know what they're doing... Still, it is a major annoyance on such systems. > > "As of fink 0.20.2, the system-perl virtual package automatically > "Provides" certain perl modules when the version of Perl present on > the system is at least 5.8.0. In the case of system-perl-5.8.1-1, > these are: attribute-handlers-pm581, cgi-pm581, digest-md5-pm581, > file-spec-pm581, file-temp-pm581, filter-simple-pm581, filter-util- > pm581, getopt-long-pm581, i18n-langtags-pm581, libnet-pm581, locale- > maketext-pm581, memoize-pm581, mime-base64-pm581, scalar-list-utils- > pm581, test-harness-pm581, test-simple-pm581, time-hires-pm581.(This > list was slightly different in fink 0.20.1: package maintainers are > encouraged to check to be sure that they are assuming the correct > list.)" > > So I was just trying to follow the manual. I will go back and put > the explicit dependencies back in. > > As a question is perlNNN-core ok to use? Any versioned dep causes no problem. JF Mertens [And in fact, a dep on 'system-perl' should still work for most pkgs that use it, if one could force 'system-perl' into existence... (e.g., if the pkg builds no binaries)]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
