Bug#963953: cpanminus depends on 'make' to work - but installing cpanminus does not install 'make'.

[Joao Miguel Ferreira]

Hello, Gregor and Jeff,

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 5:48 PM gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:

>
> Good catch, thank you.
>
> I wonder
> - whether make is enough, as gcc etc. is needed as well for XS
>   modules, so maybe we should use build-essential?
> - whethere we want this in Depends or in Recommends
>
>
In my opinion the fact that the installation of cpanminus does not install
also make or gcc is a good thing. There are many situations where no
building or compiling is required. I have seen, as reported, cpanminus
indications that make is required and gcc too when needed. That is good.

I understand that in some cases the installation of make and gcc would
avoid some debugging and even reduce inefficiency.

So in my case it 's just a matter of having more fine grained control and
also avoid the extra disk space required by make and gcc.

It cpanm works well with only make and gcc, but build-essentials would be a
more comprehensive approach.

So, I vote for non-hard dependency

Cheers
Thank you
João



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