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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>
To: Jason Rhinelander <jason@××××××××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild optional dependencies question
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:24:38
Message-Id: 20041021102001.GN21077@gnosis.datanode.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ebuild optional dependencies question by Jason Rhinelander
1 Jason,
2
3 On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:16:49AM -0700, Jason Rhinelander wrote:
4 > The current mysql ebuild does this for "perl" (it also includes an
5 > unnecessary dev-perl/DBI dependency). However, I've seen comments in
6
7 Slightly OT, but this isn't "unnecessary"
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9 $o{'PREREQ_PM'} = { 'DBI' => 1.08,
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11 DBI is a dep of dbd::mysql - it provides the core portion of the db
12 interface for perl that dbd::mysql builds on top of.
13
14 Come on, had to make a comment :)

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