https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871503

--- Comment #1 from Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> it seems that perl only Provides /usr/bin/perl
Correct.

> well, if ANY package has Require: /bin/perl and is updated the same time as
> perl depsolve in yum fails, you can satifsy such packages only by update the
> packages not at the same time or as i did install a meta-package with
> Provides: /bin/perl which is not true but made it possible to do a
> yum-upgrade on some machines from F16 to F17

My answer to this is quite simple:
* No package must Require: /bin/perl
* Any package requiring /bin/perl has to be considered broken.

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