Re: build perl problem
On 10/25/2016 09:46 AM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
* Nicolas Chauvet [24/10/2016 14:49] :
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> 2016-10-21 22:03 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart(a)gmail.com>:
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>> Other topic, but related to perl. Can anyone can explain why
>> perl-generator isn't part of perl-devel if not the case already ?
>
> Anyone to answear the question ?
This was done so that packages that contain a perl script do not have to have
perl-devel as a BuildRequires (because this is considered expensive)
Exactly, but there is more to it:
perl-devel is an ordinary *-devel package, just like any other *-devel
package. It contains headers, link-libraries etc.
perl-generators actually is more or less more a subpackage of rpm-build,
which adds some scripts and macros to rpmbuild (IIRC, it was split out
from rpm/rpm-build)
In other words, they serve different tasks and are not actually
interconnected.
Ralf