Re: Why Alien:: Dists Should not be optional

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> Alien:: distributions on CPAN (see https://github.com/Perl5-Alien <https://github.com/Perl5-Alien> ) should
> not be made an optional requirement by their reverse deps because this will
> mean duplicate logic at best, and a broken build process at worst.

I’m not sure I see what you’re saying.  Are you saying that for something like HTML::Tidy5, that Tidy5 should somehow be required to use the corresponding Alien::Tidy5 module?