Once upon a time, Vít Ondruch <vondruch(a)redhat.com> said:
I am pretty sure, that this was already discussed many times, but I
proposed to drop the seemingly last dependency of RPM on Perl in this
[1] ticket and hence Perl from minimal buildroot (unless it will be
pulled in by some other packages). The RPM maintainers as well as Perl
maintainers seems to be in favor of this change.
One other thing to check for is spec files that use perl (maybe when the
resulting package does not). I know I've written spec files that use
perl to fix things and what not.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>