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Re: Strange dependency problem installing GIT 0.99.7

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Sep 19, 2005, 19:23 UTC
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Peter Williams wrote:
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> 
> IMHO rpm shouldn't care how ShellQuote got there unless it (how it got 
> there) is stated as an explicit dependency in the spec file (which it 
> isn't).  So I still think this is a bug in rpm's (automatic) dependency 
> mechanism that needs fixing.
>

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way (and this is the wrong mailing list to discuss it on.) Anyway, the best way to install CPAN modules on an RPM-based system is to use cpan2rpm.

	-hpa
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