On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 02:04:44 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > MODULE_COMPAT was designed to allow for distinctions of more than just > the version (which is all python-abi does). This is necessary for perl > and not python because it is possible to rebuild perl in different ways > that breaks ABI compat, while python is almost entirely noarch. This > happened with the perl package IIRC in the RH8-RH9-RHEL3 timeframe. > > Since then however perl has not broken ABI (?), so it seems that we have > this seemingly overcomplicated construct. But if we do break ABI again > like in FC5 because we recompile the same version of FC4 perl with some > new flag, MODULE_COMPAT can enforce exact deps and prevent incompatible > FC4 packages from being installed on FC5. > > Chip put a lot of thought into designing this. I've thought the perl(:WITH_FOO) virtual provides define the Perl ABI requirements and not perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_...).
