<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Stepan Kasal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skasal@redhat.com">skasal@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
perl is brought to the root as a dependency of rpm-build, that<br>
contains perl scripts to search for automatic dependencies.<br>
Actually, I have a plan to replace those by an awk script or<br>
something, so that perl does not have to be installed to all mock<br>
buildroots.<br></blockquote></div><br>So that's something to keep in mind, for other packages. But I doubt this is going to happen any time soon (yes?) and we're talking about solving our filtering problems here. Having the solution general enough to both address our needs and the needs of other areas of packaging helps keep things simple for us, and will make it easier down the road to get the macros merged with core rpm. But right now, while we want the solution to be general enough that others can use it, we're mostly focused on fixing our perl-* bits (at least I am).<br>
<br>And, presumably, as you're the one looking to rewrite those scripts, we'll know when rpm is going to not require perl by :)<br clear="all"><br> -Chris<br>-- <br>
Chris Weyl<br>Ex astris, scientia<br>