[Bug 741777] Bogus requires on perl-devel from perl-tk

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741777

Iain Arnell <iarnell@xxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Iain Arnell <iarnell@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-10-12 13:01:54 EDT ---
Only a half-hearted objection - I don't care too much about perl-Tk. 

But Tk::MMutil is nothing more than a Tk-specific EU::MM extension. Nothing
explicitly requires or buildrequires it. Only a couple of perl-Tk packages
(perl-Tk-ProgressBar-Mac and perl-Tk-TableMatrix) expect it to be there at
build time due to BR perl(Tk) - and however you resolve this, both would need
to be updated as a result (unless you do nothing, of course).

I think it would be slightly more obvious for builds to fail because EU::MM is
missing rather than Tk::MMutil is missing. Pretty much everyone knows what to
do if EU::MM is missing at build time (just BR EU::MM). Missing Tk::MMutil
could easily lead to "WTF is Tk::MMutil?" <check on CPAN> "WTF? It's part of
Tk, and perl-Tk is installed, but Tk::MMutil is missing!!".

Bottom line, yes, perl-Tk should strictly require EU::MM. But for ~99.9% of
users, it doesn't actually need to.

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