perl.i386 - Re: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-04-18

[Hans de Goede]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 07:29:25 Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 07:16:28 Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> perl.i386 for x86_64 is gone (I don't know the details about that).
>> It should be gone.  Perl will not work _at_ _all_ as multilib.
> 
> Hrm, I could have sworn I committed a filter to block perl from being multilib 
> when it grew a -devel package.  However that doesn't seem to be present in 
> the HEAD of the rawhide compose tool SCM.  Not entirely sure _how_ it got 
> removed for yesterday's rawhide either.  Most bizarre.
> 
> Regardless, I highly doubt perl will work as multilib, it never was before, it 
> shouldn't be now.  The fact that it showed up for a period of time as 
> multilib is purely an accident.
> 

Jesse,

This was the trigger (although IMHO not the cause) of the "broken deps outside 
of packagers control" maillist thread. Can you please read that thread and add 
some wise words there?

Regards,

Hans