From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:23:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Strange dependency problem installing GIT 0.99.7
Message-ID: <432F104F.8030206@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <432E598A.7020306@bigpond.net.au>

Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> 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