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=741777 --- Comment #5 from Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> 2011-10-13 00:43:54 EDT --- (In reply to comment #4) > 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. Right - Minor packaging bugs. > 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) Thanks for pointing out these 2 packages. Besides these 2, I haven't found any further packages using perl(Tk/MMutil), yet (But I am still checking). > - and however you resolve this, both would need > to be updated as a result (unless you do nothing, of course). Right - Such packages will be facing FTBS's during the next FTBS round or the next perl mass rebuild. > 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!!". Well, isn't that the usual "devel<->runtime" complaint? Nothing to worry much about, IMO. > Bottom line, yes, perl-Tk should strictly require EU::MM. I do not agree. No "mere run-time module" should require EU::MM nor should any of these require perl-devel. In case of perl(Tk), it's only Tk::MMutil which pulls in EU::MM and perl-devel. That said, to me, splitting out Tk/MMutil, is just an ordinary "devel<->runtime" package split with all the "usual issues" attached. -- 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 perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
