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Re: removing useless dependencies



On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> What if Perl 5.42 removes Test::Simple from Core?
> If you retain that "useless" dependency line, you have a documentation 
> on which modules need Test::Simple

We never documented the p5-CGI dependencies and still managed to fix
pkgsrc when it was removed from core.

Also, it's hard to keep track of them since you usually won't notice
if they get added or removed, as long as they are in core.
 Thomas


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