Re: rpm and perl and packaging question

[fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...]  The problem is that perl-Spreadsheet-Read is not available
> for lots of rpm platforms (but is easily downloaded and installed
> via cpan).  So how can we make the rpm packaging _not_ include this
> dependency?

Considering that it is a genuine dependency, and assists
administrators on sufficiently CPAN-friendly distributions, we
shouldn't just disable this everywhere.  Perhaps it could be
an RPM-level conditional, which either preserves the normal
perl prereq-detection, or suppresses it (but calls CPAN to
install dependencies in the %pre-install scriptlet).

- FChE