"installdeps" problem with zeroclickinfo-goodies about p5-app-duckpan HOT 6 CLOSED

@tommytommytommy I believe the mpfr package needs to be installed:
sudo apt-get install libmpfr4

Unfortunately as it's a binary dependency installdeps won't install it

Also might need libmpfr-dev

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@tommytommytommy just re-created and tested this;

If you do sudo apt-get install libmpfr-dev and then duckpan installdeps it'll work without error:

It's not obvious from the output, however the rest of duckpan will continue to work even with this installdeps failure, only the goodies that depend on this module failing to load. We can probably do something to at least improve the output/documentation considerably here @moollaza @mwmiller @jagtalon

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Thanks! Installing libmpfr-dev worked for me.

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Excellent, I'll leave this issue open for now until we can come up with a nicer way of handling it

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Looking here: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-Zilla/lib/Dist/Zilla/Plugin/Prereqs.pm it seems like we're able to specify somewhat "optional" dependencies. I'm not sure how that works when the installer is running (hopefully it prompts the user?)

My thinking is that we can make the Perl packages that depend on system packages "optional". This would hopefully prevent Dist::Zilla from trying to install them when it's highly likely most users won't need them.

@mintsoft @mwmiller @jagtalon any thoughts or alternative suggestions? IMHO I think we should just avoid Perl packages that require system packages, or those IA's should be in their own repo(s), where we can tell dev's what sys packages are required to prevent these kinds of problems.

Either way right now we don't have a nice way of handling IA's with system deps which is not good.

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I think the ideal for me would be for it to succeed but basically say "non fatal: I couldn't install the following dependencies but you can still plough-on running duckpan" or similar.
I think system dependencies shouldn't be installed directly as this would require running duckpan as root.

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