Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2014, 12:57:59 schrieb Kent Fredric: > On 8 July 2014 06:59, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > # Filter never was part of core Perl, no idea why we have a virtual. > > # It was moved from perl-core to dev-perl and the virtual will be > > # removed. Please depend on dev-perl/Filter directly. > > virtual/perl-Filter > > > This is annoying, because anything that uses *other* than > filter::util::call *must* install the CPAN version. But anything that uses > Filter::Util::Call on its own can do so from Perl itself. > > Its also annoying because the "cpan distribution" that ships that module is > called "Filter" on CPAN, but "Filter-Util-Call" in perl/cpan/*
In the end what this means is that IF we need to depend on it, we need a virtual Filter-Util-Call ... which *can* also pull in dev-util/Filter. Of course this might get painful if version numbers are randomized. -- Dr. Andreas K. Huettel Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics University of Regensburg D-93040 Regensburg Germany tel. +49 151 241 67748 (mobile) e-mail andreas.huet...@ur.de http://www.akhuettel.de/ http://www.physik.uni-r.de/forschung/huettel/