Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520505 --- Comment #7 from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> 2009-09-04 13:01:13 EDT --- As said, it's been discussed before. Bad API usage/coding examples; package size bloat; installing stuff upstream hasn't intended to be installed; potential for spurious dependency bloat (sorry that can't be left out as evidenced by this bug) - or if you eliminate these deps, the tests can't be run without manually managing them at which point it'd be better to download and use the source rpms for this purpose (they have the proper deps, Makefile.PL's etc infrastructure upstream intended for the test suite); kind of encourages bad practices such as mentioned by Chris in his mail referred to in comment 2 (installing packages in system locations and _then_ after the fact thinking about running test suites) etc. Yes, there are exceptions and _sometimes_ packaging the test suites or parts of them might be a good idea. It seems that test suites are packaged without much thought in Fedora packages these days though. If it was a good idea in general, why wouldn't it be done in -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
