Request 272 was acted upon.
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URL: https://rt.openpkg.org/id/272
Ticket: [OpenPKG #272]
Subject: Perl dependency to GCC
Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queue: openpkg
Owner: Nobody
Status: new
Transaction: Ticket created by rse
Time: Sun Sep 28 09:23:12 2003
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> It would be nice
> to optionally relax some dependencies like perl's requirement for
> gcc (I'd like to use openpkg for all my systems but would prefer not
> to have compilers on key production machine, particularly bastion
> hosts).
Yes, Perl is an interesting special case. A lot of people think that
our "run-time" dependency from "perl" to "gcc" is an error. It is not,
because the "build-time" of Perl modules (both through CPAN shell
installations or just OpenPKG "perl-xxx" packages) correspond to the
"run-time" of package "perl". And because Perl XS API based Perl modules
(those having a C based part) require exactly the C compiler and flags
for which Perl was initially built, means that the Perl "build-time"
dependency to "gcc" has to be repeated as a "run-time" dependency.
The only possibility to relax this a little bit would be to move the
"perl" "run-time" dependency to "gcc" into many "build-time" deps for
"perl-xxx". That's the only possibility I see and it could make sense.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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