116066 – dev-perl/RPC-XML need not depend on mod_perl + apache

Bug 116066 - dev-perl/RPC-XML need not depend on mod_perl + apache

Summary: dev-perl/RPC-XML need not depend on mod_perl + apache

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-12-19 10:27 UTC by Robert Kleemann
Modified:	2005-12-19 10:48 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Kleemann 2005-12-19 10:27:33 UTC

As seen from this discussion:

http://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-t-213048-highlight-rpcxml.html?sid=aca2ac6d6fc40e474fd571fbf61f2ba8

There are at least two applications (slimserver and Audio::Moosic) that use XML_RPC (for parsing XML) but do not use any of the apache related modules.  The result is that mod_perl and apache get pulled in as dependencies when they are not needed.

Would it be possible to split RPC-XML into two packages?  Maybe RPC-XML and RPC-XML-apache where the latter contains all the modules that depend on mod_perl?  This would greatly lessen the footprint of apps that require RPC-XML but do not use the apache related modules.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-19 10:30:46 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Would it be possible to split RPC-XML into two packages?  

Such requests need to be made UPSTREAM.

Comment 2 Robert Kleemann 2005-12-19 10:48:15 UTC

> Such requests need to be made UPSTREAM.

Ok.  I sent an email to the owner of RPC::XML with the request.