Michael Tiemann <tiemann@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:18 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: >> Hi, > >> 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. I don't think any of the people disagreeing with this change mind splitting devel/non-devel - the problems we're facing now revolve around the fact that splitting the 'devel' bits out tend to pull things that people expect to be in a normal perl distribution - like CPAN, for instance. We're still fighting about how to make this work. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
