Hi,

On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:46:31 -0500
Andy Lester <a...@petdance.com> wrote:

> > 
> > Alien:: distributions on CPAN (see https://github.com/Perl5-Alien
> > <https://github.com/Perl5-Alien> ) should not be made an optional
> > requirement by their reverse deps because this will mean duplicate logic at
> > best, and a broken build process at worst.  
> 
> I’m not sure I see what you’re saying.  Are you saying that for something
> like HTML::Tidy5, that Tidy5 should somehow be required to use the
> corresponding Alien::Tidy5 module?

either it should have it as a hard dep, or it should implement something of its
own to detect if the library is present (but not download and install it). 


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