On Tuesday 06 February 2007 06:29, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "TC" == Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > TC> Since perl is special, perl packages are exempt from the > TC> requirement for -devel packages for .h header files. > > I'm definitely for for this, although I wish someone who truly > understands why arch-specific Perl modules need a .h file could > explain it to us. For all I know it doesn't actually need to be > packaged. They're installed for the usual reasons - something requires them, usually at build time. See for example perl-DBI and perl-DBD-MySQL; the latter needs DBI's *.h to build, ditto probably all other perl-DBD-*. Rather than blanket approval for the status quo, I think it would be better to first discuss whether -devel packages for some perl modules should be introduced instead. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
