Re: perl package split - if you maintain a perl-* module, read this message.

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Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:45:43 Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> Only in that it's explicitly called perl-devel and so people ask why a
>> -devel package is being installed on their system when they haven't
>> asked for development stuff[1]
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> [1] And this has already been asked...
>
> Well sure.  I suppose if we don't do any further splitting around and just 
> make sure that perl-devel is in buildroots I'm ok with this, but that's going 
> to leave a lot of packages that _won't_ rebuild on the end users system, nor 
> in mock necessarily, unless they're getting group information from us.

Well, would you be happier with the 'not adding the packages to the
buildroots' idea?  IOW, package owners will have to add the proper
BuildRequires to their packages (which is really the more correct
solution).

-RN

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