On 04/01/2016 03:46 PM, Petr Pisar wrote:
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:14:43PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 02:43:41PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Requires: (perl-generators if perl-libs)
>>
> That's interesting idea. I only worry there could be cases when the
> perl-generators were unnecessarily installed. E.g. you install vim-enhanced,
> thus you have perl-libs, and you install rpm-build for building non-perl
> packages. Then you will have perl-generators. I'm not sure how much it
> would bother people.
>
One more issue. It would not work if you had a spec file that does not need
a perl for building. Spec that only installs a perl script into /usr/bin.
I know there are some.
These package should be considered broken.
We require run-time deps to be present as build-deps to make sure these
packages actually are runable and installable.
Ralf