Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/p5-Getopt-Long
To: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 02/16/2006 08:16:05
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roland Illig wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
>> Module Name:	pkgsrc
>> Committed By:	abs
>> Date:		Wed Feb 15 23:28:21 UTC 2006
>> 
>> Update of /cvsroot/pkgsrc/devel/p5-Getopt-Long
>> In directory ivanova.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv10379
>> 
>> Log Message:
>> Add devel/p5-Getopt-Long-2.35
>> 
>> The Getopt::Long module implements an extended getopt function
>> called GetOptions(). This function adheres to the POSIX syntax for
>> command line options, with GNU extensions. In general, this means
>> that options have long names instead of single letters, and are
>> introduced with a double dash "--". Support for bundling of command
>> line options, as was the case with the more traditional single-letter
>> approach, is provided but not enabled by default.
>
> Do we need this package? Getopt::Long version 2.34 is already provided by the 
> base package. (At least the two packages do not conflict.)

 	Someone had a... special... perl package which depended on >=2.35
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