On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:27:03 -0500, A1tmblwd@xxxxxxxxxxxx <A1tmblwd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 A1tmblwd@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >> Dag Wieer's package has the least dependencies. After my last > >> experience this would appear to be for the good. The code for > >> perl-XML-Parser comes from a common source, www.cpan.org. So, why the > >> difference in dependencies? Why are third-party packagers not using the > >> source rpm and spec file from Fedora Core so that this difference in > >> dependencies does not occur? > > > >Because at the point that this was packaged, there was no alternative. My > >original package existed before any official one. > > > > Dag, please clarify. Do you mean that you were the first to put out a perl-XML-Parser for a Redhat/Fedora release and that RedHat/Fedora later added the module to their distribution or do you mean that you were the first to release a package based on CPAN's 2.34 code base? > probably the latter, because RH8.0 came with that package already: /pub/redhat/redhat-8.0/base/i386/RPMS/perl-XML-Parser-2.31-12.i386.rpm http://dag.wieers.com/packages/perl-XML-Parser/perl-XML-Parser.spec * Sat Dec 20 2003 Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.34-0 - Initial package. (using DAR) -- Bernd
