[oe] Why does samba think it (R)DEPENDS on perl?

[Mike Looijmans]

Found that the cause is "inherit cpan-base", this hardcodes "perl" into 
the package.

I think this requires a split-up of cpan-base.bbclass into two parts, so 
that one get obtain the perl version without adding these dependencies.

On 30-12-15 11:34, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> When building the current version of samba, it builds perl and drags it
> into the image through an RDEPENDS.
>
> I've been researching this for a while, but failed to figure out what
> causes this runtime relation. Is there a way to find out where this is
> being "detected"?
>
> The workaround I implemented is simply adding this line to the samba
> recipe, which at least gets rid of the overhead in the image:
>
> RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "perl"
>
> (Samba 4 is bloated enough by itself, it doesn't need other packages to
> inflate its runtime even more)
>


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Mike Looijmans