perl [was: AutoReq(prov) ]

[David Relson]

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 05:12:39 +0100
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
> 
> > I've put the "%define _requires_exceptions perl" back into
> > bogofilter.spec.in.  Bogofilter will no longer have dependencies on
> > perl.  This should have minimal impact since we know that perl
> > exists on systems running rpm (because rpm uses perl) and, if
> > MIME::Parser is missing, it only affects script mime.get.rfc822
> > which is a minor component of bogofilter.
> 
> I don't care about the MIME::Parser stuff, perl -MCPAN -e 'install
> MIME::Parser' is easy enough.
> 
> Is Perl mandatory for RPM? We might try to depend on /usr/bin/perl
> otherwise.

Perl is needed for various of the scripts we distribute with bogofilter.
 Of course, since the main parts of bogofilter are C, not perl, if an
rpm somehow installs on a system without perl, the executables will be
fine.

For now, let's continue building rpms without the perl dependency.