build perl problem

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2016-10-25 11:08 GMT+02:00 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>:
> 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.

Thx for your explanation.

I understand they are conceptually different packages. But my point is
that once you get perl-devel you will need perl-generators as a
necessary requirement.
There (should be) no case where using perl-devel and not require
perl-generators. But instead the "fedora/epel" perl packaging is
opening a gap for this fault.
Now if there is ever a single reason to have the perl-devel but not
perl-generators, enforcing the requirement shoudn't be an issue as the
dependency cost is negligible.

Also a good encapsulation would have been to hide this technical
dependency behind something more usual, so this doesn't break the
world.

Anyway, thx for your clarification.


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Nicolas (kwizart)