Re: [Plplot-devel] perl XML modules

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2006-05-02 14:01-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote:

> I humbly disagree.  These are dependencies of a dependency and should not be 
> checked directly.

This configuration check for all perl packages required by PLplot is a
leftover from the days when RedHat packaged perl incompletely so that you
had to rely on CPAN to get all needed perl modules.  Since CPAN (at least in
that era, I don't know about now) had no dependency information, we had to
specifically do these checks.

Debian has for many years packaged all the perl modules that we need, and,
Orion, your comments imply that Fedora now does the same. If you can
confirm that, I think we can presume virtually all distros package the perl
modules that we need, and for this case I agree it is better to indirectly
depend on package dependencies to make sure what we need is installed rather
than doing complete (and time-consuming) checking ourselves.  Thus, I hope
you accept Rafael's invitation to send in a patch concerning this
configuration issue.

Of course this is not release-critical so Hazen should just go ahead with
his release plans, and we can deal with this perl configuration issue
afterward.

Alan
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