Re: Versioned provides ... a necessity !
Le Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 07:26:10AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull écrivait:
> Or a single multi-binary package..
Of course. When in said packages I meant binary packages (or .deb files) not
source packages.
> > Unless we agree to always use the latest perl ...
>
> Use the latest perl for???
For making our distribution ! I would not like to see that Debian 3.0 does
provide perl5.004, perl5.005, perl5.006 with all perl modules beeing packaged
three times too.
> If you need a specific perl then you use the perl5.005 binary directly,
> or the like...
>
> (You also have the perl methods for version handling)
Your solutions won't work the same way :
- having #!/usr/bin/perl5.005 with a correct dependencies would work
- having a 'require 5.005' in the perl script would break it if
/usr/bin/perl changes.
> Why should Debian specific perl modules be any different?
They are probably more critical than others for the administration of
a Debian system.
> Also keep in mind that for the system critical ones I would /much/ prefer
> have them depend on a old version of perl then risk things trying to use
> them with a version of perl which they don't work with, screwing the
> system...
Are you speaking of scripts or modules ? It's up to the script to decide
wich perl to use.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
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