On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:13:11AM +0200, Tibor Pittich wrote:
> On 23. aug 2003 at 13:38, Pascal wrote:
> 
> > # LC_ALL=C urpmi --auto-select
> > Some package requested cannot be installed:
> > amavis-ng-0.1.6.4-4mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(File::Scan)[>= 0.20]) 
> > (Y/n) n
> 
> ok, now i create perl-File-Scan package (0.63-1mdk), which should be on
> mirrors soon. please test it with amavis-ng package.
> .. and of course, thanks for report

This is a fundamental problem with automatic perl requires.  A lot of
tools can optionally use perl modules if they are available and if they
aren't it doesn't break anything, the functionality isn't available.
These shouldn't be requires, problem is now we have to know all these
exceptions and exclude them from the requires, which IMHO is a bigger
pain to figure out and deal with than the ones that really are required.

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"What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can
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