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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Strange dependency problem installing GIT 0.99.7
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:23:59 -0700
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Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> IMHO rpm shouldn't care how ShellQuote got there unless it (how it got 
> there) is stated as an explicit dependency in the spec file (which it 
> isn't).  So I still think this is a bug in rpm's (automatic) dependency 
> mechanism that needs fixing.
> 

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way (and this is the wrong mailing 
list to discuss it on.)  Anyway, the best way to install CPAN modules on 
an RPM-based system is to use cpan2rpm.

	-hpa