Jan Pazdziora wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 04:14:15PM +0100, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote: >>> This patch will remove the Requires that were placed on perl-devel at >>> the end of the f7 cycle. It is proposed for the 'devel' branch (f8). >>> Comments? >> If that breaks the assumption that all perl core modules are installed >> by default, I am against (and you already know the reasons). > > Will the net effect be that the core modules will not be installed, or Several core modules - CPAN, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Test::* - wouldn't be installed and that would make life miserable for some people. A couple of examples: * users wouldn't be able to install perl modules in their homedirs as CPAN/ExtUtils::MakeMaker/Test::* aren't there. This is particular critical in computer labs (at least here). * people that has to maintain/install perl applications in heterogeneous systems (several linux distros, macosx, win32, ...) wouldn't be able to run their installations scripts, run test code, etc. (again in some systems you don't have access to the root/system account). * all perl specfiles would have to be modified/reviewed in order to start adding the splitted perl core modules to their build requirements list (a big waste of packagers time). > just the fact that they get installed via independent rpm (and thus > upgradable independently)? > Several perl core modules have already been splitted. As you can see the current perl specfile already generates the following rpms: perl-5.8.8-18.fc7.i386.rpm perl-CPAN-1.76_02-18.fc7.i386.rpm perl-devel-5.8.8-18.fc7.i386.rpm perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.26-18.fc7.i386.rpm perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30-18.fc7.i386.rpm perl-libs-5.8.8-18.fc7.i386.rpm perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.fc7.i386.rpm perl-Test-Harness-2.56-18.fc7.i386.rpm perl-Test-Simple-0.62-18.fc7.i386.rpm The splitted core modules should be independently upgradable. jpo -- José Pedro Oliveira * mailto:jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/members/jpo/ *
