Bug 170137

Summary:	g-cpan should Ignore recommended modules
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Guido Flohr <guido>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Guido Flohr 2007-03-09 15:33:48 UTC

g-cpan currently treats modules marked as recommended like dependencies.  That causes problems with many modules.

A good example is DBIx-Class-Schema-Loader-0.03009.  It has a BUILD.PL which lists various DBI drivers (DBD::*) as recommended.  The author probably wants to give a hint that these versions are at least required.

However, g-cpan treats them as dependencies, and ends up trying to compile for example the DBI driver for DB2 (DBD::DB2) which is not really needed, and a nightmare to build

Other modules often recommend modules from the Test:: namespace, in order to run fancy tests.  But these are never needed, since the test phase is skipped anyway.

IMHO the default behavior of g-cpan could simply be changed (always ignore recommendations).  Alternatively it would be of great help to be able to either suppress all of the recommended modules, or individual ones.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-11 08:17:27 UTC

NOT portage...

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-12 15:42:03 UTC

Give me some time to think about this? I think you make a very valid case, no worries, just need a few nights of thinking :)

Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-24 00:29:12 UTC

ok, removed from scan of meta.yml in svn. fair call :)