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Bug 456534 - perl back to requiring perl-devel by default
Summary: perl back to requiring perl-devel by default
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stepan Kasal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F10Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-24 14:08 UTC by Jeremy Katz
Modified: 2008-08-08 13:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-08-08 13:48:40 UTC
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Description Jeremy Katz 2008-07-24 14:08:25 UTC 
perl has regrown its dep on perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker which means that perl-devel
is always being pulled in.  -devel packages should not be required for a default
install
Comment 1 Stepan Kasal 2008-07-28 10:38:15 UTC 
You are suggesting that perl-devel crept in as a requirement of
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.  We cannot see anything like that.

The default package list contains a meta-package named "perl-core," which is
proud to deliver "all of the perl bits and modules in the upstream tarball."
Indeed, the perl-core requires enlists them all: perl-devel, perl-ExtUtils-*,
perl-Test-*, perl-CPAN, and perl-Module-Build.

It seems perl-core is part of the default instalation.

What is the right solution here?
Perhaps perl-core might be split into two parts:
One would be named "perl-core-devel" or "perl-apple," would get the original
description ("all of the perl...", see above) and would require perl-core and
the development packages mentioned above.
The other one would be named "perl-core," and would maintain the rest of the
current huge requires list.
The base install would contain perl-core, but not perl-core-devel.

What do you think?
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2008-07-28 14:44:32 UTC 
With today's rawhide, that is not the case.  perl-core is not listed in comps
and the dep tree pulling perl-devel is from
[katzj@aglarond comps]$ rpm -qpR
~/trees/rawhide/i386/Packages/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.36-38.fc10.i386.rpm 
|grep devel
perl-devel  
[katzj@aglarond comps]$ rpm -qpR
~/trees/rawhide/i386/Packages/perl-5.10.0-38.fc10.i386.rpm |grep MakeMaker
perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)  
[katzj@aglarond comps]$ grep perl-core comps-f10.xml.in 
[katzj@aglarond comps]$

With F9 gold booted straight off the livecd
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qR perl |grep MakeMaker
[root@localhost ~]#
Comment 3 Stepan Kasal 2008-07-28 15:20:42 UTC 
(Oh, I examined obsolete rpms, sorry.)

You are right. That unfortunate dependency appeared first in perl-5.10.0-37.fc10.
Thank you for your report and for your patience explaining it to me. ;-)

After a quick examination, I cannot see anything in the diff which would warrant
the change, so I'm afraid it's caused by a change in the build environment. 
(That is to be confirmed by a scratch build.)  Stay tuned.
Comment 4 Stepan Kasal 2008-08-08 13:48:40 UTC 
The problem was caused by enc2xs templates .../Encode/*.e2x, which, unlike the enc2x script itself, were packed in the main perl package.
Fixed in perl-5.10.0-39.fc10.
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