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The issue is basically, as you'll see in my comments on the updated |
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bug, Perl virtuals are not very trivial, and every perl release |
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results in a nightmare of fixes we have to apply to every Perl virtual |
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in tree, so we don't , at present, want more virtuals than necessary. |
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I'd personally love to have a virtual for each thing that is in perl |
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itself, as a virtual, because that would absolve me from a few |
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headaches with depending on certain core modules, but I won't request |
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it because the added complexity is just not really worth it. |
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And its not made easier by the fact upstream declare dependencies on |
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Modules, not Distributions , and Module<=>Distribution is resolved |
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dynamically at install time, and we basically have to make assumptions |
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downstream that modules wont jump around too much between releases . |
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If we were to have a virtual for each *module* that was possible to |
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depend on, there would be ... 668 virtuals, *just* for perl. |
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I volunteer to be somewhere else if that ever happens. Not maintaining |
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that, no thanks =) |
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Kent |
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