On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 06:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:28 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Friday 02 March 2007 11:17:24 Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > > > I don't see any fault in adding perl-devel to the FC7 buildroot, with > > > the caveat that it will not be there in FC8+. Thoughts? > > > > I'd rather not change things multiple times. > Well, exactly the reason why I would like to see perl-devel in FC7's > buildroot. It avoids forcing packagers to change their packages NOW. > > Remember: Adding perl-devel to the buildroot affects one person (you). > Not adding it and affects 100s of packages and dozens of packagers. > > > Why does Ralf think it hasn't been baked yet? I'm missing that context. > > This change causes most (all?) perl modules and applications using perl > (comprising noarch packages) to depend on perl's config.h at build time. > > The primary question to clarify would be: > > What is the cause, why (esp. noarch) perl-modules now require a c-header > (perl's config.h) and (thereby gcc) to build? [1] Well, fwiw, they seem to have required this before, the -devel split just made it more apparent. When I rewrote the perl spec, I didn't make any code changes, just spec file cleanups. ~spot
