On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 06:26:22AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 09/10/2014 08:24 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > >On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 12:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> possibly admitting my ignorance, but why does installing > >>perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker drag in systemtap-sdt-devel? i see no logical > >>connection, and i don't even have any systemtap packages installed. > >> > >> i ask since i'm working with a software package that fails to > >>configure properly if the header file "sys/sdt.h" is installed on the > >>development system, but it needs the MakeMaker package, so i'm in a > >>bit of a dilemma. > Coincidence of events. I hit the same issue yesterday when trying rt-4 on > f21 for the first time ;) > > >When in doubt: > > > >$ echo n | sudo yum install --releasever=21 --installroot=/tmp/empty foo > > > >And then examine the output. In this case, perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker → > >perl-ExtUtils-Install → perl-devel → systemtap-sdt-devel. Which appears > >to have been so since December 2010: > > Yes, it's perl-devel which pulls in systemtap-sdt-devel > > But, I think there are a couple of bogus deps on perl-devel in some of the > perl package's sub-packages, which are causing the dependency bloat e.g: > > perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder > perl-ExtUtils-Embed > perl-ExtUtils-Install > perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker > perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS > perl-Module-Build > > I don't think any of these should R: "perl-devel" > (f21-patch enclosed below). > Please use bug #1129443. I have already done a review and some of them must depend on perl-devel, oterwise you will not be able to build XS perl modules. -- Petr
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