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Journal of AndyArmstrong (7200)

Tuesday March 27, 2007

02:18 PM

Dependency Frenzy

[ #32809 ]

Wow. I'm just installing Plagger on a couple of boxes. One of them is my regular laptop and it already has quite a lot of CPAN installed. Even so Plagger has what look like hundreds of unsatisfied dependencies.

I'm sure it's all going to be worth it - although all I want to do is merge a handful of RSS feeds. Right now it feels slightly like overkill for that task :)

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Hated it. (Score:1)

by jk2addict (4946)

I'll chalk it up to having a bad day, but the last time I tried installing Plagger, I got fed up with the amount of deps.

http://use.perl.org/~jk2addict/journal/31372 [perl.org]
Maybe... (Score:1)

by AndyArmstrong (7200)

...I shouldn't have said Y to all the optional deps. It's still going more than an hour since I started. Crazy stuff.

Still it probably means I'm unlikely to need to install anything for a few weeks - pretty soon I'll have all of CPAN :)
- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by sigzero (5768)
  
  That is crazy.
Task::Plagger (Score:1)

by Alias (5735)

Catalyst solved this problem by splitting it into seperate distributions.

They have some core dists, and then the Task::Catalyst dist which asks a whole bunch of different questions and installs whatever deps you need.

Plagger is currently the same, you almost certainly shouldn't install ALL the optional deps.
- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by AndyArmstrong (7200)
  
  I now know this :)
  
  I started again skipping all the optional deps and, while it still pulled in a load of dependencies it installed cleanly in a few minutes.
  
  I think that at least the documentation could use a note to explain this. Unfortuntely the Plagger Wiki doesn't seem to be editable so I can't add it.
unnecessary deps (Score:1)

by educated_foo (3106)

The sad thing is that two of those at least (Test::Pod and Test::Pod::Coverage) don't even add any user functionality.