Provides: perl(main)

[Ralf Corsepius]

Hi,

I just tripped several perl-packages in Fedora, which

Provide: perl(main)

AFAIS, most of them originate from perl modules using
package main;

somewhere in their code.

I am inclined to consider letting rpms "provide: perl(main)" as
packaging bug (perl(main) should better be filtered out for them),
but am not sure about it.

A quick check on my FC4+FE4 systems reveals these packages:

# rpm -q --whatprovides 'perl(main)'
mod_perl-2.0.1-1.fc4
perl-MIME-tools-5.417-2
perl-HTML-Tree-3.18-3
latex2html-2002.2.1-3
perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-5
perl-5.8.6-22

Ralf