Hi Chris, On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:00:06PM -0800, Chris Weyl wrote: > rpm itself requires perl,
yes, but AFAIK it is only because the scripts generating provides and requires are written in perl. So the requirement is not that strong currently. > and the "minimal system spec" (whose actual name I'm blanking on > at the moment) requires that perl be available on a system. Yes, but what I had in mind was the "minimal" that is installed to a chrooted anvironment for a mock build. The basic requires are listed at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Exceptions_2 and perl is not there. AFAIK, it is only brought there as a requirement for rpm. > Not that I'm saying anything like we _have_ to use perl for it, Likewise, while I want to make the consequences clear, I'm not saying perl _cannot_ be used. :-) Have a nice day, Stepan -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
