On 03/03/2010 05:04 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> said: >> Cpan is being used to keep a perl-installation "current". > > Trying to mix CPAN and RPM managed perl modules is a recipie for > disaster already. Right, but this doesn't invalidate trying to help keeping the impact small. > That's not a good reason for a meaningless update. As I already tried to tell you, this update is *not meaningless*. Due to perl's working principles and due the work-flow perl-module authors apply, it is the version number which matters. >>> I update when there's a bugfix that >>> affects my platform (a bugfix that only affects perl 5.11 users doesn't >>> affect F11 users) or when there's a new feature I need. >> Wait until you will want to address a "serious/critical" bugfix to a >> perl-module which carries a dependency on a perl-module you haven't kept >> in sync with CPAN > > That's a good reason to update the depended-upon modules. Can you show > a case where a module version that was only updated for compatibility > with a newer version of perl was required? There have been many such cases - Most of these cases however simply did not have a visible impact, because most perl-modules in Fedora have been kept "current enough". If they occur, they show up as updates requests "Please update perl-xxx" in bugzilla. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
