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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=270859

           Summary: automatic dependencies on perl modules?
           Product: openSUSE 10.3
           Version: Alpha 3
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Installation
        AssignedTo: mls@xxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: pmladek@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx
                CC: aj@xxxxxxxxxx, anicka@xxxxxxxxxx


Why have we disabled the automatic dependencies on perl modules in rpm?

The detailed automatic provides are already generated by
/usr/lib/rpm/find-provides. The code writing the corresponding requires is
commented out in /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires:

# --- Perl modules.
#[ -x /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req -a -n "$perllist" ] && \
#    printf "%s\n" "${perllist[@]}" | /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req | sort -u


Is it only an artefact after the rpm-3.x where the rpm database was slow?
Or is there still a good reason to disable it?

Note that the automatic dependencies might save a lot of work when maintaining
perl modules. They might also avoid problems like in the bug #270543.


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