Duplicate Perl 5.8 libraries

Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Mon Mar 9 03:36:28 PDT 2009


On 2009-03-09 05:19:35 +0000, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent-opdarw at ...> writes:
> 
> > On 2009-03-08 18:22:46 +0100, Rainer Müller wrote:
> > > Adam Byrtek wrote:
> > > > When playing with dependencies for a new port that requires certain
> > > > CPAN libraries I found out that there are multiple p5 ports containing
> > > > libraries already included in perl5.8. I had this problem with the
> > > > following ports:
> > > > p5-time-hires
> > > > p5-text-balanced
> > > > p5-digest-md5

[...]
>    2) perl5.8 did not always provide the module.

Yes, this was at least the case of Digest::MD5 at least (and probably
the other ones too since I did not have any conflict with perl5.8
before). But now, the dependencies can be removed.

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