David Levine <levinedl@acm.org> writes:
Tom wrote:
One other thing to worry about is that RHEL might not even carry
the prerequisites of the package you want. When rebuilding
nmh-1.7.1-7 on RHEL8, I found I needed perl-NKF which is not in
base RHEL8. Fortunately you can get it from the codeready repo.
I'm surprised that perl-NKF, or any perl package, is needed.
According to my notes, the Fedora nmh package lists w3m as a build
dependency and w3m wanted perl-NKF as an install dependency.
I didn't stop to inquire about how essential either dependency
actually is.
My vague memory from a previous life working for Red Hat is that their
automatic dependency extractor sometimes misidentifies perl dependencies,
and only fairly nitpicky packaging engineers will trouble to get rid of
bogus ones. So maybe the perl-NKF dependency was bogus and I could've
overridden it ... or not.
regards, tom lane