Re: removing useless dependencies

[Matt Sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On Jul 5, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Quite a lot of perl packages have dependencies like these:
> 
> {perl>=5.10.1,p5-Test-Simple>=0.88}
> 
> i.e. either a "new enough" perl, or the separate package.
> 
> Since pkgsrc forces a "new enough" perl anyway, i.e., always the
> latest, I don't see much point in maintaining these. Does anyone else?
> 
> If not, I suggest removing them.
> Thomas

Doesn't this prevent a forced rebuild on perl upgrade?