On 7/13/13 5:34 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>     I am curious why we are bothering to create Distribution variant info 
> files
> in libs/perlmods for packages like business-isbn-data-pm, 
> data-section-simple-pm,
> devel-stacktrace-pm, file-finder-pm, file-next-pm, math-matrixreal-pm,
> module-build-pm, module-refresh-pm, rec-descent-pm, test-data-pm and 
> test-synopsis-pmr?
> Shouldn't we be able to replace the Distribution variant info files with 
> single
> non-variant info files that use a "Type systemperl {}" field to achieve the 
> same result?
> With upcoming release of 10.9, the number of Distribution variants in 
> lib/perlmods will
> start to bloat so if we can replace those with non-variant ones, it would be 
> nice.
>            Jack
>
>

Not necessarily.

The answer depends on the packages.  If they don't link to the system's 
perl libraries and don't hardcode a versioned executable, then it's 
probably OK, since we don't need to force rebuilds on supported OS 
update paths (i.e. there's only one Revision).

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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