Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 12:00:52 Robin Norwood wrote: >> Well, the buildroots currently have 'perl-devel' because we made 'perl' >> Require 'perl-devel' - which is obviously wrong for the long term, but >> in the short term fixed the builds. What we're doing now is further >> splitting things out so there will be more packages, *and* removing the >> Requires. There's been some further discussion on >> fedora-perl-devel-list about this, and the alternative is to *not* add >> the new packages to the buildroots, and just have people fix their >> packages. Not to be a total weathervane here, but personally I'd just >> as soon not add the packages to the buildroots, and fix the broken >> packages now. I just don't feel like I have enough of a feel for which >> option people will prefer to make a call. So, if you have an opinion, >> speak up now. > > Personally I think it's rather late in the game to be doing such things, > especially because we only have one test release to get things right and the > final to correct what we got wrong. I'd rather see the rest of this split > happen after F-7 is branched off devel/ and focus on getting it right in > devel/ I'd rather not go out with the current situation of perl Require-ing perl-devel - just too much of a hack. I admit I should've gotten this straightened out earlier, but since it's a packaging change, likely to affect a small group of package builders, I think the impact will be low enough to bear the risk of going ahead with this. -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
