[Bug 1129443] repeatly deps to perl-devel

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129443

Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED



--- Comment #2 from Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> ---
I'm sorry the dependencies defined by upstream code pollute your system but
that's how it is.

As Ralf pointed out correctly the issue is that perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker gets
installed into your system. perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker is a development tool,
hence it pulls in perl-devel, yet it's a Perl core module which many other
packages use because it provides nifty functions.

If we cut the dependency between perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker and perl-devel, users
would lose capability to build XS Perl modules which is one common drawback
presenting in other distributions and one people, usually web application
deployers, often complain.

Therefore the best solution is to split perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker to separate the
nifty functions, however it requires upstream blessing and that's a thing I
cannot see bright.

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