Hi everybody, I am pretty sure, that this was already discussed many times, but I proposed to drop the seemingly last dependency of RPM on Perl in this [1] ticket and hence Perl from minimal buildroot (unless it will be pulled in by some other packages). The RPM maintainers as well as Perl maintainers seems to be in favor of this change.
Nevertheless, there will be necessary to update Perl packaging guidelines, to explicitly require Perl generators in some cases, and subsequently to fix the affected packages: # repoquery --whatrequires 'perl(*)' --source | grep -v 'perl-'| sort -u | wc -l 618 This is quite enough work, on the other hand, it should enable simpler bootstrapping of Fedora and prevent issues, such as currently broken build root on PPC builders. I believe it is worth of the effort. If you have any comments, please speak up now. Vít [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158860 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
