On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Ralf Corsepius <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would you please explain in detail why Fedora's perl needs systemtap and > what it uses it for? > > As I tried to outline in the BZ above, the consequence on perl and > Fedora are dramatic.
I think you're over-exaggerating the consequences, Ralf. It's not perl that requires systemtap; it's perl-devel that requires systemtap-sdt-devel. Ideally, almost no-one should need to have perl-devel installed; it should really only be necessary when building XS modules or linking with libperl. Unfortunately, our packaging is less than perfect, so a few packages end up pulling in perl-devel unnecessarily (mostly through Test::Builder and Test::More). I'm going to take a look at removing some of these where the requirement is obviously wrong. And for things like SQL-Translator that include their own test modules, I'd suggest splitting off a separate perl-Test-SQL-Translator sub-package. As for your other concern that systemtap-sdt-devel is pulling in python, have you ever tried to "yum remove python"? Like it or not, python is a pretty fundamental requirement in Fedora and will be present on just about every installation anyway. -- Iain. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
