[Bug 689709] Circular and missing dependecies

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--- Comment #10 from Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> 2011-03-23 08:43:07 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Imho if this should be fixed, then it should be fixed in Fedora first.
Wasn't I clear enough?

It's impossible to fix it, because perl is full of dynamic circular dependency
chains.

In this particular case you can remove a dependency which is introduced by a
more or less unimportant test, but in generality, it's naive to believe this
was possible.

(In reply to comment #9)
> If we're voting, then +1 for bcond, but surely we'd want "bcond_with
> bootstrap", not bcond_without.

I am insisting on bcond_without, because

our interest is Fedora, a distro which is incrementally built and want to test
our packages "to the max" as part of our regular works whenever we build our
packages.

i.e. people who are trying to bootstrap from scratch for whatever reasons, are
not of any importance and need to be taught that Fedora is incrementally built.
Apart of perl, they will be facing similar issue all over the place, e.g. when
building gcc/glibc/kernel (also an incrementally built system).

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