Re: GNOME Icon Theme 2.13.5[.1] AKA the HOLY CRAP, ICONS! release

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 1/17/06, Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > I may be able to get perl-XML-Simple pulled into FC2, even if we
> > > normally don't allow new packages after test2. But regardless of that,
> > > it sucks to use *yet* another perl parser, just
> > > because we haven't used them all yet...
> > >
> >
> > Ok, this is getting interesting, perl-XML-Simple drags in
> > perl-Tie-IxHash, lets see
> > how much of the perl universe will end up getting caught by this
> > innocent dependency...
>
> Perhaps this is a packaging issue? It certainly doesn't depend on that
> module here [1], or any machine I've ever installed it on before. And
> according to the source listing on cpan.org, it seems to only require
> XML::SAX or XML::Parser, which then also depend on other things, such as
> Storable, or dependencies provided by the perl source itself.
>
> -- dobey
>
> [1] perl-XML-Simple 2.14 on unstable SUSE/Novell packages
>

Could be, all I can see in the Fedora Extras rpm changelog is

- optional test module as build requirement perl(Tie::IxHash).

I can probably just remove that build requirement, thanks for pointing that out.