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Bug 1052761

Summary:	perl-Env pacakge should be folded into perl package
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Warren Young <warren>
Component:	perl-Env	Assignee:	perl-maint-list
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	ppisar
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Description Warren Young 2014-01-14 01:42:44 UTC

Description of problem:

This is a core Perl module. By making it a separate RPM, you break some CPAN modules that rightfully expect to be able to use this module without declaring an explicit dependency on it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL 7 beta

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a RHEL 7 minimal VM
2. Install Perl and perl-App-cpanminus
3. Say "cpanm HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI" as root

Actual results:

cpanm complains that Env isn't present while trying to run test t/04cgi.t.

Expected results:

It should just install the package.

Additional info:

I have not attempted an audit of other perl-* packages to see if any others are core modules that should be folded into the main perl package.

Comment 1 Warren Young 2014-01-14 01:45:39 UTC

I have also asked the author of HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI to remove this dependency on Env, since they aren't making any real use of Env. I mention it because my steps to reproduce the problem might not show you the failure, if this other problem is fixed before you try my test.

Bottom line, Env is a core Perl module, so it should be in the main perl package.

Comment 3 Petr Pisar 2014-01-14 13:22:00 UTC

CPAN itself delivers dual-lived Env module <http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Env/>, therefore we deliver this newer version. You can install perl-core RPM package to get all core modules into the system.