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From: Yuval Yaari <yyuval@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:23:38
Message-Id: 43C3ED48.8020003@checkpoint.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode? by Michael Cummings
1 Before you start unmasking, lest we forget that dev-util/svk is masked
2 by itself, anyway.
3 Daniel, what's the big difference between Encode 2.08 and 2.10 (provided
4 by perl 5.8.6 and 5.8.7 respectively, IIRC)?
5 Just wondering if the dependency is justified ;)
6
7 --Yuval
8
9 Michael Cummings wrote:
10
11 >I'd prefer to unmask 5.8.7 instead if it were just up to me...especially
12 >since 5.8.8 is looming in the next week or so according to nick
13 >
14 >
15 >On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 10:10 -0500, Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote:
16 >
17 >
18 >>Hello,
19 >>
20 >>Before opening a bug to track this, I wanted to get some feedback.
21 >>
22 >>Currently dev-util/svk depends on >=dev-lang/perl-5.8.7. The only
23 >>reason is that the version of Encode in 5.8.6 is too old.
24 >>
25 >>As part of bug 116331, I suggested adding perl-core/Encode and
26 >>depending on that in dev-util/svk. Is this something the perl herd
27 >>would consider?
28 >>
29 >>Thanks,
30 >>--
31 >>Daniel Westermann-Clark
32 >>
33 >>
34
35 --
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Re: [gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode? Daniel Westermann-Clark <daniel@××××××××××××.net>