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Theo Van Dinter writes:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:35:01PM -0400, Eric Wood wrote:
> > Your correct.  It's the only spamassassin-3x rpm I could find on the net at:
> > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
> 
> I'd just build it yourself.  Docs are on the wiki/download page (iirc).
> 
> > doesn't really check for specific perl modules.  Maybe the spamassassin 
> > package maintainers might need to be informed.
> 
> Yeah, this comes up periodically.  Since Net::DNS isn't required for SA
> operation, it's not listed as required in the spec file.  There doesn't seem
> to be a way to say "if perl(Net::DNS) is installed, require version 0.34 or
> higher".

actually, I was thinking about that.

It might make sense to turn some of those optional-but-recommended
dependencies into requirements, in packages for platforms where
apt-get-style systems are available; if the user doesn't have to
do additional work to get them, then we should get them by default.

- --j.
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