On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:14:29PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > This module is a generic Perl module that is designed to install libjio if it > is not installed, and then report the flags required for programs to link to > it. Under Debian, installing libjio via this package is not necessary (since > it can simply Build-Depend and Depend on the libjio package itself. > > However, the Perl module still needs to be installed so that Perl programs can > find it, and the flags required to link to it. This will be useful if modules > other than simply IO::Journal (later to be ITP'd as libio-journal-perl, once > it is appropriately uploaded to CPAN). > > Luckily, since only the Perl stuff is going to be installed, then it's not > likely we'll ever need to really upgrade this module... Can't you just patch the modules in question so that they don't need to use this module? It seems silly to create a module just to make sure that a dependency is installed. That's for the Perl module building system or dpkg to ensure. If we had a separate Perl module to ensure every dependency that a Perl module might need, we'd have lots of unnecessary modules. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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