Description of problem: Freshening perl requires perl-devel Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-5.8.8-15.fc7.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Freshen perl (rpm -F perl*) Actual results: perl-devel is needed by perl-5.8.8-15.fc7.i386 Expected results: perl should not require perl-devel to install or freshen Additional info:
Thanks for the bug report, but this is a known issue. Right now perl 'requires' perl-devel: # XXX - remove this once RH bug #231549 is fixed Requires: perl-devel Since that bug is fixed, I'll remove the requirement for the next build of perl/perl-devel. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231549 ***