On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 07:25:16PM -0400, Dan Book wrote: > Looking at the dependency chain for perl-core, it brings in perl-devel > directly and as a prerequisite for modules such as perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker > and perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl. Assuming perl-devel is what brings in the C > development toolchain that's undesired, would this be a possibility, > however distant (direction suggested by hobbs on IRC): remove the > perl-devel dependency from these modules, and have 'perl' then be able to > install everything else - the whole set of expected core modules? > Missing compiler (gcc) for building XS modules is common pitfall some distributions do and there is also vocal camp of complainers about that. I actually want to weaken the dependency on gcc, but the implementation will differ. The perl-devel will miss dependency on gcc per C language packaging guidelines (as it includes standard C library headers), but perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder will require it (as it executes gcc binary). It's still undecided what packages will Require or Recommend perl(ExtUtils::CBuilder). But so or that if you want to install everything Perl upstream delivers, then you will get ExtUtils::CBuilder module on your system and that will pull in gcc. This is a natural dependency that cannot be avoided if you do not want to break integration that Fedora as any other Linux distribution aims to achieve. -- Petr
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