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From: Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] redundant Perl module?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:03:55
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0602271156260.25120@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt
1 I made a perl script using the Digest::MD5 module. _It works_. Now, a
2 "emerge -s md5" displays, besides some other packages unrelated to perl:
3 * dev-perl/Authen-DigestMD5
4 Latest version available: 0.04
5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
6 Size of downloaded files: 4 kB
7 Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Authen-DigestMD5-0.04/
8 Description: SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication (RFC2831)
9 License: || ( Artistic GPL-2 )
10
11 * dev-perl/MD5
12 Latest version available: 2.03
13 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
14 Size of downloaded files: 2 kB
15 Homepage: http://www.cpan.org/authors/is/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.03.readme
16 Description: The Perl MD5 Module
17 License: Artistic
18
19 * perl-core/Digest-MD5
20 Latest version available: 2.33
21 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
22 Size of downloaded files: 43 kB
23 Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Digest-MD5-2.33/
24 Description: MD5 message digest algorithm
25 License: || ( Artistic GPL-2 )
26
27 * virtual/perl-Digest-MD5
28 Latest version available: 2.33
29 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
30 Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
31 Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/
32 Description: Virtual for Digest-MD5
33 License: GPL-2
34
35 So, none is installed...
36
37 How to explain this? Are the packages perl-core/Digest-MD5 and
38 virtual/perl-Digest-MD5 obsolete? Meaning, are the modules included in
39 the standard packages?
40 (I did check that none of these packages is installed off portage...)
41
42
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44 Jorge Almeida
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Re: [gentoo-user] redundant Perl module? Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>