Created attachment 659467 [details] Patch against rawhide nikto package to fix this problem The nikto package "provides" the perl modules perl(JSON::PP) and perl(JSON::backportPP::Boolean) due to its bundling of the JSON::PP module in %{_datadir}/nikto/plugins/JSON-PP.pm; this may lead to it being pulled in to satisfy dependencies of packages requiring these modules, though it doesn't actually satisfy those dependencies because the implementation is not in the perl search path. These provides should be filtered, e.g. using the attached patch. This issue also affects F-17; I haven't checked F-16 or F-18 but I'd expect it to manifest there too.
I've fixed this myself in Rawhide (which scratches my itch), but it's still broken in F-18 and F-17.
Thank you. Pushing the changes to F18.
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Fixed long ago in F-19.