https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542666 --- Comment #2 from Laine Stump <laine@xxxxxxxxxx> --- (1) Okay, I see now that "Requires: perl(IO::Pty)" is properly resolved by rpmbuild to require perl-IO-Tty. I thought I had tried that, but most likely only tried with the original "Suggests: perl(IO::Pty)" and incorrectly jumped to the conclusion that it was due to the module being included in the IO::Tty package (when in fact it was just because "Suggests:" is a useless directive :-P). I finally got it working correctly with Requires perl(IO::Tty) and apparently didn't try backtracking enough. (2) I haven't been able to figure out a valid use for "Suggests:" Since it's not possible for dnf to know how applications I will install in the future might use Net::OpenSSH, there's no way for the presence of a "Suggests: perl(IO::Pty)" to ever actually lead to that module being installed - as far as I can see the only use for Suggests: is to provide a clue to someone whose application fails, and who then knows enough to go back to the specfile for the parent package, which seems not much of a use at all. This is the sum of my usage of Net::OpenSSH (in the libvirt-tck package, which starts up a throwaway virtual machine to test the libvirt library): my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($guestip, user => "root", password => $tck->root_password()); ($stdout, $stderr) = $ssh->capture2("bob"); ($stdout, $stderr) = $ssh->capture2("loblaw"); ... Yeah yeah, allowing password authentication is bad security, I get it. I imagine it's reasonably common though, especially in throwaway scenarios like this (and I also can't imagine that perl-IO-Tty is very large). (3) To be honest, I think Suggests: is pointless, and any module that is referenced within a package should have a hard Requires:. If someone can explain to me how having Suggests: can lead to the modules being magically installed once they are called, then I might change my opinion :-) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ perl-devel mailing list -- perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to perl-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
