I thought I'd raise this here to get some discussion: What do you all think about suggesting that packages which only need perl-base to function depending only on perl-base, not perl? I've recently run into a situtation where this would be nice because I'm making a relatively minimal root image, for which I've wanted to include libparams-validate-perl. Unfortunatly, libparams-validate-perl depends on perl even though it can work with perl-base, which more than doubles the size of the image. If this seems reasonable, I'd suggest expanding: Binary modules must specify a dependency on either perl or perl-base with a minimum version of the perl package used to build the module, and must additionally depend on the expansion of perlapi-$Config{version} using the Config module. to indicate that depending on perl-base when it is the only dependency necessary is desirable. Don Armstrong -- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert Heinlein http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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