Re: perl and perl-modules; reflexive dependencies vs. archive bloat
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 05:52:46PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > [Don Armstrong]
> > > I actually suggested that perl-modules recommend perl, but that was
> > > rejected for the reason that perl-modules doesn't do anything useful
> > > without perl.
> >
> > You sure?
>
> I'm sure that it was the reason given, but I didn't have time to
> investigate whether it was true or not.
I don't think I was involved in that particular conversation, but I
listed a couple of the dependencies in #527917:
perl-modules -> perl
Unicode::UCD -> Storable
Module::Build -> Data::Dumper
perl -> perl-modules
B::Lint -> Module::Pluggable
Time::Piece -> Time::Local
While this doesn't imply perl-modules is unusable without perl, getting a
broken Module::Build when installing without recommends doesn't seem like
a good thing. Particularly as perl-modules Provides: libmodule-build-perl.
The only tool I'm aware of that actually breaks with the circular
dependency is piuparts.
FWIW, as I said in #536384 I don't have a strong opinion about the merge
myself. Both Brendan [1] and Eugene seem to want it though, so I saw no
reason to block Eugene's efforts.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536384#62
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