Silly question, perhaps, but I'm quite a beginner with making a CPAN-worthy module (yes, still working on that, between other real-life projects that hinder progress)--and searching online did not help me find an answer:

According to the h2xs utility, the README file should contain a list of the module's dependencies. I have a hard time thinking such things as use strict; should need to be listed, but what about require Exporter;?

If my dependencies are strictly limited to the following, which of these, if any, should be listed in the README file? 

use 5.008003;
use strict;
use warnings;

require Exporter;

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I would think these are all virtually taken for granted, and ubiquitous on ordinary installations of Perl. Do I still list them? If not, do I report "No dependencies"? (That doesn't seem quite accurate, either.) What is considered the best practice here?

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Listing dependencies for Perl modules--should even the common ones get listed? by Polyglot

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