build perl problem

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 10/25/2016 09:46 AM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> * Nicolas Chauvet [24/10/2016 14:49] :
>>
>> 2016-10-21 22:03 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> 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