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From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
October 3, 2003 01:44
Subject:
Re: Hidden dependencies?
Message ID:
3F7D36C7.1050603@sun.com
Nicholas Clark wrote:
>>As with every large project at this point, I think Perl should have a
>>spec file as part of the distribution. Building dependency lists
>
> I don't use any RPM based systems. I know many people do. More people
> use Windows than Linux. Maybe we should package perl as a PPM.
Well it would make *my* life much easier if perl shipped with a full set of
SVR4 packaging files that excludes all the stuff I don't want, like VMS and
Win32. However I somehow don't think that constitutes a reasonable request.
I don't think expecting perl to fix some brokenness in the RPM mechanism
is reasonable either.
> We are upstream. Spec files are what OS maintainers exist for.
> And in general they do a better job than we ever could, because they
> work daily dealing with their OS's packaging system.
Amen.
> It is not a heuristic dependency checking of p5p's making that is causing
> all this grief.
ISTM that the problem is at their end.
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Alan Burlison
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