On 08/15/2009 09:00 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
Out of the thread on p5p, I'd like to propose the following changes for
F-12:
* Rename "perl-core" to "perl"
* Rename "perl" to "perl-minimal"
The biggest change here is that there are still packages which "Require:
perl", usually to specify a specific minimal version. Here is a list of
rawhide packages which do this:
With this change, these packages will have a larger installation
footprint, unless they're cleaned up. Instead of:
Requires: perl
or
Requires: perl> 5.6.0
They should either have:
1. If they're version dependent, they should have
Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo
$version))
2. If they're not, they could either accept the larger install
footprint, or switch to:
Requires: perl-minimal
Thoughts on this?
-1
Rationale:
a) As others already pointed out, many of these "requires:" are
automatically added => Part of the issue is inside of perl.req etc. and
not inside of the perl package
b) "Requires: perl > XXXX" is intuitively understandable
("A natural solution" ), perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_..) isn't.
c) R: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_..) is not a natural replacement for
"R: perl > XXX". They have different semantics.
R: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_..) basically refers to module search paths,
while "R: perl > XXX", can refer to many to subjects and may originiate
from other issues, such as changes of the perl language, bugs a perl
module author might have encountered, etc.
Example:
# rpm -q -requires help2man | grep perl
/usr/bin/perl
perl >= 0:5.005
perl(Getopt::Long)
perl(POSIX)
perl(Text::Tabs)
perl(locale)
perl(strict)
* There is no explicit "requires: perl >= ..." inside of this package's
spec,
* The package actually doen't require a "perl-package >= 5.005", it
requires "The Perl Language > 5.005"
* The package doen't install any module, so "perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_..)"
isn't right either.
That said, I think, we need another rpm tag, besides "perl" and
"perl(:MODULE_COMPAT..)" to denote "The Perl Language" version and let
rpm add this in perl.req instead of "perl > XXX".
Ralf
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