[Bug 520505] Spurious dependency on perl(Test::More)

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--- Comment #7 from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>  2009-09-04 13:01:13 EDT ---
As said, it's been discussed before.  Bad API usage/coding examples; package
size bloat; installing stuff upstream hasn't intended to be installed;
potential for spurious dependency bloat (sorry that can't be left out as
evidenced by this bug) - or if you eliminate these deps, the tests can't be run
without manually managing them at which point it'd be better to download and
use the source rpms for this purpose (they have the proper deps, Makefile.PL's
etc infrastructure upstream intended for the test suite); kind of encourages
bad practices such as mentioned by Chris in his mail referred to in comment 2
(installing packages in system locations and _then_ after the fact thinking
about running test suites) etc.

Yes, there are exceptions and _sometimes_ packaging the test suites or parts of
them might be a good idea.  It seems that test suites are packaged without much
thought in Fedora packages these days though.  If it was a good idea in
general, why wouldn't it be done in

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