please help: %doc causing extra dependencies ?

[Paul Howarth]

Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
>>How can I still add these things as *documentation*, without them
>>causing my package to require PERL ? I've already tried removing
>>the executable attribute on the files, but the package still ends up
>>requiring perl...
> 
> 
> OK, removing the executable flag works only on proper perl scripts. If
> the file is a perl *module*, this won't help, since the relevant bits
> of code from   /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires  don't care about
> permissions, but rather about the '.pm' extension:
> 
> 
> 	# 
> 	# --- Add perl module files to perllist.
> 	for f in $filelist; do
> 	    [ -r $f -a "${f%.pm}" != "${f}" ] && perllist="$perllist $f"
> 	done
> 
> 
> So, the only way to prevent the package from depending on perl would
> be to rename the .pm files in contrib. I could do this, but it feels
> like there should be a better way.

Take a peek at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl

Paul.