On Tuesday 06 February 2007 06:29, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "TC" == Tom 'spot' Callaway
<tcallawa(a)redhat.com> writes:
TC> Since perl is special, perl packages are exempt from the
TC> requirement for -devel packages for .h header files.
I'm definitely for for this, although I wish someone who truly
understands why arch-specific Perl modules need a .h file could
explain it to us. For all I know it doesn't actually need to be
packaged.
They're installed for the usual reasons - something requires them, usually at
build time. See for example perl-DBI and perl-DBD-MySQL; the latter needs
DBI's *.h to build, ditto probably all other perl-DBD-*.
Rather than blanket approval for the status quo, I think it would be better to
first discuss whether -devel packages for some perl modules should be
introduced instead.