Controlchan and MIME

[Alexander Bartolich]

William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote:
> [...]
> My only misgiving is Perl's dependency syndrome that can sometimes lead 
> to long chains of dependencies which could completely fail if just one 
> module fails to compile.  Granted, I think the incidence of this is (I 
> hope) on the decline, but the worry is still there.
> 
> Not diving too deeply in MIME::Parser, what dependency exposure is there 
> should this route be taken?

On Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu this problem has already been taken care of
as these distributions provide packages containing MIME::Parser.
Dependency details on Debian 4.0:

$ apt-cache --recurse depends libmime-perl
libmime-perl
   Depends: perl
   Depends: libmailtools-perl
   Depends: libio-stringy-perl
   Depends: libconvert-binhex-perl
libconvert-binhex-perl
   Depends: perl
libmailtools-perl
   Depends: perl
   Depends: <libnet-perl>
     perl-modules
   Depends: libtimedate-perl
   Conflicts: <mailtools>
   Replaces: <mailtools>
libio-stringy-perl
   Depends: perl
libtimedate-perl
   Depends: perl
   Conflicts: <timedate>
   Replaces: <timedate>
     libtimedate-perl
<libnet-perl>

Ciao

     Alexander.