Michael Tiemann <tiemann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:18 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: [...] > > However, one change has been pretty controversial. In accordance with > > standard Fedora packaging, he split the C header files into a > > perl-devel package. These files aren't needed to run perl modules, > > but they are needed to build many perl modules, both in Core and > > Extras. Unfortunately, when I accepted the new spec file and built it > > into rawhide, I didn't think through the consequences fully, and we > > ended up breaking a lot of builds. It was generally not very obvious > > *why* the builds were breaking, leading to much frustration[2]. > My $0.02: now that the reason is known, and known to be a direct > consequence of Following The Specs, it seems to me that adding the > -devel requirement to packages that do, indeed, need -devel is The Right > Thing. I, for one, am always happy to see a more clear and clean > distinction between the -devel and the non-devel worlds. Yup. But that means breaking other pieces out of perl into perl-devel, like MakeMaker (creating Makefiles for Perl modules is "development", right?). There are surely other pieces that should follow... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
