Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on CentOS and Alpine Linux

Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 06:55:22PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
>> Some distributions strip down the Perl installation and don't install some
>> "standard" modules.
>> 
>> I believe that Devel::Peek, as well as Devel::Refcount (missing for your
>> macOS report) are only used in texi2any for internal correctness checking,
>> and so it should not be a big deal for us not to require these modules.
>
> Agreed.  I added Devel::Peek as a hard dependency because it is in Perl
> core modules since long, but it is not such an important dependency,
> especially since the bugs that are supposed to be found with those
> modules are probably relatively independent of the platform.

I guess 'cpan' always exists, so it can be installed from there.

I don't think Alpine Linux, for example, allows you to easily install
'cpan'. At least, that is what I remember when trying to install
Expect.pm for testing GNU coreutils.

So maybe making them optional is best.

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