Re: Request for help from binary packaging people.

From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Date: Aug 8, 2005, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20050808222119.GE7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbr482ik5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

* Junio C Hamano (junkio@cox.net) wrote:

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> Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > ...  Also, rpm is able to determine the perl dependencies
> > automatically (of course, ditto for shared libraries).
> 
> I take it to mean that we do not have to explicitly list perl
> module dependencies.  If that is the case then I presume that
> the current dependency list is fine.

That's correct. The only benefit to itemzing the package level dependency in this case is just for an error message that tells you which package you're missing rather than the low-level perl module.

thanks, -chris

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