Re: perl-devel will be removed from the f8 buildroots

["Chris Weyl" <cweyl alumni drew edu>]

On 7/2/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 08:39 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
>
> > While there are serious arguments on both sides of this perl split,
> > the request for a meta-package to emulate the prior behaviour
> > (especially on one's own system) is not a presumptively irrational
> > request.
>
> I don't see anything wrong with a perl metapackage, perl-core.
>
> Would that be preferred to a yum group?

I'd certainly prefer it to a yum group, for a number of reasons.
(e.g. minimum versioning of requires in 'perl-core' if we do end up
with different levels available out there, for one.  apt for two
<grin>)

                           -Chris
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Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia