https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226324
--- Comment #18 from Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de --- (In reply to Tom "spot" Callaway from comment #17)
If I had to guess, I'd say someone was trying to make a package split to minimize dependency footprint in the default install.
Yep, seems so:
commit bd352b89ba9c6872eba5afa83fa21fe1c0ce6039 Author: Adam Jackson ajax@fedoraproject.org Date: Wed Jul 22 19:11:59 2009 +0000
- Split perl scripts to a subpackage.
They clearly didn't achieve it though or they did at one point and perl crept back in.
Apparently the latter. psjoin was added by this commit, which causes perl to creep-in:
commit d3e42a7fc02b8777678f0f9bd0fa8697e6479908 Author: Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com Date: Tue Oct 22 17:17:04 2013 +0200
new upstream (version 1.21)
IMO, this split contradicts end-user usability and therefore should be dropped.