does mc really require perl*?

[Michael Cronenworth]

Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 09/11/2013 02:18 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> IIRC Mandriva had patches which added Suggests/Recommends to RPM over 5 years
>> ago.
>
> Suse as well.

Is there a bug opened for this enhancement?

I know it has been talked about for years, but nothing has come out of mailing 
list discussions. A quick BZ search turned up nothing.