On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:02:19 +0200 (CEST), Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:07:55 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> >
> > > Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo
> > > $version))
> > >
> > > As long as we're going through all FC4 perl modules, we might as well
> > > add this to all packages too. Just confirming, is this wanted in *ALL*
> > > packages that need perl, both regular arch and noarch?
> >
> > Certainly for all Perl module packages which install files into versioned
> > Perl vendor lib locations (or site lib, although that should not be done).
> > That's the only way to ensure that the main "perl" actually supports loading
> > from those versioned directories.
>
> One important point, you are (or have been) effectively dropping support
> for every distro prior to FC1.
No. That's what the perl-forward-compat package has been for:
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/8.0/i386/RPMS.stable/perl-forward-compat-5.8.0-0.fdr.2.i386.rpm
