That does help a bit, thanks.  Does yum and friends try and go get the
required perl modules or does it just stall and tell you that they are
not installed?

On 5/16/07, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Mike:
>
> I can only speak for RPM packaging as I do not have any experience
> with deb package creation.
>
> For both Python and Perl, you can reference dependencies via the
> package name, i.e. if your RPM requires perl-Tk, then you just put
> that in your requires, like:
>
> Requires: perl-Tk
>
> For Perl, there is an alternative way to specify this dependency, as follows:
>
> Requires: perl(XML::Simple)
>
> This requires the specific Perl module, which is not specific to the
> package name, so this dependency will work on distributions who choose
> to have difference names for the specific Perl module package (eg.
> Fedora vs SuSE).
>
> This naming convention currently does not exist for Python.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Bernard
>
> On 5/11/07, Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, from a packaging point of view (either rpm, deb, etc
> > or OSCAR) how would one deal with dependencies which are part of a
> > different packaging system, like perl or python modules?
> >
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