Perl requires/provides proposal

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 13:17, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> Sounds good. Let's touch them when the time has come. The perl module
> packages in fedora.us should be pretty stable upgrade-wise, since they
> don't depend on a specific Perl version (except for automated sanity
> related deps like perl >= 0:5.005). But for update packages to be modified
> and prepared for FC 1.90, we should no longer include "unowned"
> vendor/site/multi directories, even if the updated package will create
> unowned directories on FC1. As soon as a new perl core package is
> available, which provides the necessary virtual capabilities as Chip
> Turner has explained, we could simulate it with a meta-package for FC1 to
> benefit from being able to build the same src.rpm for multiple releases of
> FC and increase the dependencies of noarch.rpms. We could make such a
> package include the unowned Perl directories, too.

+1