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  • From: Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>
  • To: Robert Helgesson <rycee AT home.se>
  • Cc: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Remove perl-cpan spells which are bundled?
  • Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:56:38 -0600

Only thing I can think of for this is I have run across some perl
programs that say it depends on some of these bundles and I don't know
enough about perl to know if there is something that says this bundle is
installed and if the program is looking for that information.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 15:35 +0100, Robert Helgesson wrote:

> Some spells in perl-cpan installs modules which the perl spell already
> installs, an example is Digest-MD5 [1]. I wonder if anybody mind if
> those spells are removed from the grimoire.
>
> I don't know if any of these spells provide some crucial functionality
> that the bundled module does not and that would of course have to be
> examined first. But at least the Digest-MD5 spells seems to be exactly
> the same version that the module installed by perl.
>
> This is a bit confusing and I think it would be bad to have two separate
> installations of a module anyway so I would prefer to remove the spells.
>
> [1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3897
>
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