On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 09:58 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > I am inclined to consider letting rpms "provide: perl(main)" as > packaging bug (perl(main) should better be filtered out for them), > but am not sure about it. I tend to agree, because one cannot do "use main" or "require main" in perl code -> nothing should depend on perl(main). So, wouldn't it be good if rpmbuild wouldn't emit that at all? RFE and patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/177960 > A quick check on my FC4+FE4 systems reveals these packages: > > # rpm -q --whatprovides 'perl(main)' > mod_perl-2.0.1-1.fc4 > perl-MIME-tools-5.417-2 > perl-HTML-Tree-3.18-3 > latex2html-2002.2.1-3 > perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-5 > perl-5.8.6-22 Will fix MIME-tools, thanks. repoquery on Rawhide confirms the above findings and adds some others: latex2html-0:2002.2.1-5.1.noarch js-0:1.5-0.rc6a.6.i386 perl-Gtk2-0:1.102-1.fc5.i386 (reported in Bugzilla)