Subject: Re: perl pkg
To: Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au>
From: Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/06/1999 12:26:19
On 5 Aug 1999, Geoff Wing wrote:

# I suppose it's just a matter of packaging it and testing the other 89
# packages which depend on it.  However it will mean the everyone will
# have to remake/reinstall all of those (up to 89) packages which rely
# on it unless better logic on alternative dependencies can be done in
# bsd.own.mk - maybe RE type like:
# 	DEPENDS=perl-5.00(404|503):${PKGSRCDIR}/lang/perl5 

Maybe the DEPENDS check should be passed directly to pkg_info -e,
so you can say, i.e. 

	DEPENDS="perl>5.00404"

# Perhaps that was discussed previously?
# (Oh, and to address your question: sorry, don't know myself.  No-one?)
# 
# Regards,
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