error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

[Michael J. Knox]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Michael J. Knox wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> Ralf Corsepius schrieb:
>>>> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:39 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>>> Not that it matters much, but:
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Howarth schrieb:
>>>>>> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 18:57 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote:
>>>>>>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>>> In virtually all of these cases, the right thing to add as a 
>>>>>> buildreq is
>>>>>> actually intltool really, since XML::Parser is being checked for 
>>>>>> in the
>>>>>> configure script to ensure that intltool will work. 
>>>>> Yes. But intltool is included in some (a lot of?) packages so...
>>>>>> Adding intltool as a
>>>>>> buildreq will automatically pull in XML::Parser.
>>>>> ...will add a package as buildreq that's not used at all during build.
>>>
>>> Maybe I should have mentioned here...
>>>
>>> "So adding
>>> BuildRequires: perl(XML::Parser)
>>> is IMHO the better solution"
>>
>> Ok, I will keep this in mind for future packaging. However, the 
>> "threat" of an external perl module being pulled into perl itself 
>> would be possible for any perl module... so are all perl related 
>> BuildRequires: to be perl(Something::Whatever) ?
> 
> Yes. This is what you'll find in just about every perl module oackage in 
> Extras that depends on other modules.
>

Cool, thanks :)

Michael