Spilt libperl from perl

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:54:01 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:

> Recently, gaim went away and pidgin showed up in Extras.  All of a sudden, 
> nothing brought in perl to be multilib.  I mistakenly assumed that perl had 
> never been multilib and things were just noticing.  We had big discussions 
> around perl/gaim and multilib around FC6 release time and I forgot the 
> outcome, and I simply was an idiot and didn't look at the FC6 tree, which 
> clearly shows perl was multilib.
> 
> To resolve this, I have added perl to a "whitelist" to force it to be multilib 
> again, since pidgin isn't in core to pull it in.  This will resolve all these 
> broken deps for Fedora 7, without making further drastic changes to the perl 
> package.
> 
> Perl should once again be multilib with tonight's rawhide.

Hmmm ... recently you've said it (Perl multi-lib) doesn't work at all.
 
> This problem wouldn't have come up had we already been merged, since pidgin 
> would be available during the compose, depsolved, and brought in the perl 
> multilib.

Pidgin introduces a full new set of packages, which replace/obsolete the
old gaim packages. Isn't that enough to upgrade from an old fc6 multi-lib
gaim to the fc7 64-bit pidgin?