Patrice Dumas wrote: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/348090/ "Re: Redhat perl != perl" > > https://lwn.net/Articles/348084/ "On properly packaging perl" > > This seems to be an old change that was reverted afterwards.
This thread was in 2009. Since things are fine in CentOS 6 and 7, probably they reverted it around 2010 (before CentOS 6) and did the same thing again around 2014 (between CentOS 7 and CentOS 8). > Something strange seems to be going on, as I use centos 8 stream and here perl > depends on Unicode::Normalize: > > $ rpm -q --requires perl | grep Unicode-Normalize > perl-Unicode-Normalize In my CentOS 8-stream installation: $ rpm -q --requires perl package perl is not installed $ rpm -q --requires perl-interpreter | grep Unicode perl(Unicode::Normalize) Apparently there is a smaller package than 'perl', called 'perl-interpreter', and this is the one that I have installed. And this package depends on perl-Unicode-Normalize but not one perl-Unicode-Collate. Why? Probably because of the size: perl-Unicode-Normalize is 1 MB large, perl-Unicode-Collate weighs 5 MB. > Without Unicode::Collate the issue is not only that the test suite does > not pass, but also texi2any will fail in any case. Then the right thing is a configure test, that aborts the configuration with a message like "Your perl installations lacks the Unicode::Collate module. If you are on a Red Hat distribution, try installing the perl-Unicode-Collate package." Bruno
