Fwd: (WTF?) ExtUtils::MakeMaker not included in recent red-hat perl releases

[Marcela Mašláňová]

So called "red-hat perl" is popular again on Perl porters. I guess if
you have any proposals about Perl packaging, now it's the best time to
say so.
The main problem is that 'yum install perl' doesn't install whole Perl
tarball.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: (WTF?) ExtUtils::MakeMaker not included in recent red-hat perl
releases
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:39:21 +0100
From: demerphq <demerphq at gmail.com>
To: Perl5 Porteros <perl5-porters at perl.org>
CC: Ricardo SIGNES <perl.p5p at rjbs.manxome.org>

It seems that Red-Hat has decided to release Perl without
ExtUtils::MakeMaker being included.

This is IMO really bad, and shows the real need for us to provide
guidance to repackagers, something that has been discussed in the
past, but never went anywhere as far as I know due to a lack of
consensus.

I think this decision by Red-Hat is strong indication that we should
draw up a document for repackagers to use and explain that certain
modules MUST always be provided, ExtUtils::MakeMaker IMO being one of
them.

cheers,
Yves


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