On 14 September 2011 14:04, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 14/09/2011 13:40, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : >> >> Likewise due to widespread suggests among perl modules, we bring quite >> a lot of perl modules: >> urpmi -> perl-Hal-Cdroms -> Net-DBus -> XML-Twig -> XML-Parser -> LWP >> -> perl-libwww-perl -> HTTP::Negotiate -> HTTP::Negotiate -> >> HTTP::Message > > Automatic dependencies computing result... The algorithm used here can't > figure if a module used anywhere in the source is always used, or only in > specific occasion. > > I see two potential links that could get turned in soft dependencies here: > - urpmi -> perl-Hal-Cdroms, but urpmi should probably get modified to > ensure a graceful failure if the user tries to use a cdrom, while > Hal::Cdroms is not installed.
It's already a suggests and urpmi already handles smoothly its absence. But we could remove altogether that suggests and only install it in case of DVD install. > - XML-Parser -> LWP, which is probably only used for validating against > remote grammars.
