[Mageia-sysadm] possibility to add a package in basesystem-minimal? (long)

Fri Nov 11 10:46:33 CET 2011

On 11/11/10 18:42 +0100, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+> >> do we have some perl-* package that is required for all perl developers,
+> >> but that is not some of the above?
+> >
+> > plenty - but that's another discussion. i mean, programming is perl is
+> > mainly assembling lots of cpan packages to achieve what you want to do.
+> > on my machine, i have installed all perl modules, and i think i'm using
+> > around ~70% of them (either directly or through dependencies).
+> 
+> I think this is actually the discussion.
+> 
+> basesystem-minimal is for things that are needed by any user creating
+> the smallest possible chroot and we try to limit what is required
+> (hence the name).
+> 
+> If you only want to be sure it is available when building any rpm,
+> rpm-build is probably a good place
+
+makes sense. i wasn't aware of all the things related to rpm.
+ 
+
+> If this is required for some scripts in rpm-mageia-setup or
+> rpm-mageia-setup-build to work correctly, the dependency should
+> probably be there
+
+nope, that's not the case.
+
+
+> If you want it to be installed whenever you build a perl package, the
+> dependency should be on something which will always be installed when
+> building a perl-package (rpm-build will be, but it's better if you can
+> find something more specific)
+
+maybe it can be added to perl package - but rpm-build seems more
+logical.
+
+do we have a consensus here? should i proceed and add a minimum version
+of perl(EUMM) in rpm-build?
+
+thanks for the insight,
+jérôme 
+