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These days I had to debug an unpleasent surprise that I could track down to the member "nm" in the variable libswanted in Configure. I went through the git history of Configure and found it was alread there in 1994 (2304df62caa7d9be70e8b8bcdb454e139c9c103d): : +libswanted="net socket nsl inet nm sdbm gdbm ndbm dbm malloc dl dld sun m c_s posix cposix ndir dir ucb bsd BSD PW x" 20 years later the two-letter word gets a new life: : # aptitude show libnm-dev : Package: libnm-dev : New: yes : State: installed : Automatically installed: yes : Multi-Arch: same : Version: 1.0.10-1 : Priority: optional : Section: libdevel : Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> : Architecture: amd64 : Uncompressed Size: 5,604 k : Depends: libnm0 (= 1.0.10-1), gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 (= 1.0.10-1), : libglib2.0-dev : Description: GObject-based client library for NetworkManager (development files) : NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices : and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available. : It manages ethernet, WiFi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, and : provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services. : Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager A week ago in a short moment of inattention this beast got installed on my smoker. From that day on all my perls were built with: : perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -lnm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc That was the only difference, the -lnm resulting from the fact that I now had a libnm-dev package installed. The effect was so tiny that it took me a while to notice it. All tests passed but IPC-Run-0.94 had a few tests that sudenly failed: : http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/20895f3c-ac1d-11e5-9299-d07fbe244ed2 Meanwhile I have killed all my smokers and am restarting with a new recipe that specifies libswanted on the comman line. But we shoul fix this at the root to spare others the same trouble. Ideas how to deal with it: 1) remove nm from the list and force others who want to use their own nm to add it in their hints file 2) follow the example of hints/bsdos.sh to remove it for linux 3) introduce an option like vetolibs so that the enduser can easily specify "nm" as not welcome? 4) Anything else? Thanks, -- andreasThread Next