[Mageia-sysadm] possibility to add a package in basesystem-minimal? (long)

[Jerome Quelin]

On 11/11/11 10:46 +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote:
> > If you only want to be sure it is available when building any rpm,
> > rpm-build is probably a good place
> 
> makes sense. i wasn't aware of all the things related to rpm.
> 
> > If you want it to be installed whenever you build a perl package, the
> > dependency should be on something which will always be installed when
> > building a perl-package (rpm-build will be, but it's better if you can
> > find something more specific)
> 
> maybe it can be added to perl package - but rpm-build seems more
> logical.
> 
> do we have a consensus here? should i proceed and add a minimum version
> of perl(EUMM) in rpm-build?

nobody objected, so i proceeded and just submitted a new rpm which
requires a recent perl(EUMM) in rpm-build.

thanks for the pointers,
jérôme