Bug 116710

Summary:	perl-core/Test-Simple: no dependency to perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Denis Knauf <denis.knauf>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Denis Knauf 2005-12-25 09:52:16 UTC

perl-core/Test-Simple/Test-Simple-0.62.ebuild needs perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker, but in DEPEND, there's no perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker.

Comment 1 Yuval Yaari (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-02 10:11:35 UTC

I don't think it depends on that specific ebuild, but rather on that specific module.
And since this module is included in the Perl distribution (see `perldoc perlmodlib`), I don't think a dependency should be added.
A fact is that I just emerged perl-core/Test-Simple without ever emerging perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker.

Just my $.02...

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-08 06:30:57 UTC

Like Yuval said - this isn't an oversight. The ebuild for MakeMaker is for those folks (or at least it was) that were running ancient perl versions but needed to be able to install current perl modules (and so the eclass didn't have to have different build syntax for every version of makemaker out there since 5.6). This is not a bug or an oversight, it is intentional. Your perl install came with MakeMaker, that's all you need.