Description of problem: RPM creates an automatic perl-dependency for aspell. On most of my machines, perl is installed only because of bad packaging but not, because it is needed. This dependency on perl is caused only by /usr/bin/aspell-import which is not needed for core functionality. Because perl is a huge and usually unneeded package it would be nice when this requirement would be removed from the 'aspell' package. Ways would be: * move non-core tools (e.g. aspell-import, precat, pre*zip, ...) into a -tools subpackage * move libs into a -lib subpackage so that e.g. 'php' would require aspell-libs instead of a bloaty 'aspell' * do not package 'import-aspell' * move 'import-aspell' into %doc section and remove x-permissions Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): aspell-0.60.3-5 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 0. rpm -Uvh --root `pwd`/test fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm --nodeps # not really needed but helps with yum 2. yum --installroot `pwd`/test php 3. rpm -e --root `pwd`/test perl Actual results: 'perl' is installed and required only by 'aspell' | $ rpm -e --root `pwd`/test perl | error: Failed dependencies: | /usr/bin/perl is needed by (installed) aspell-0.60.3-5.i386 | $ --> 'aspell' is the only package requiring 'perl' Expected results: 'perl' would not have been installed during 2) because 'perl' is not required to make 'aspell' work.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175178 ***