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  • Taking 'Tie-TinyURL' as an example, it requires 'Test', which is why it lists 'HTML-Widgets-Index' as being dependent. Except that Tie-TinyURL doesn't use 'Test' anywhere. I suspect this is a hangover for when it was ported to use Test::More, which it does use. This threw up a couple of ideas to help filter the results you're getting to something that is perhaps a little more relevent.

    1. Filter based on the 'requires' and/or 'recommends' entries in META.yml. If there is no META.yml, assume all pre-requisites are required.
    2. Filter out anything that is a Test:: module. This won't necessarily exclude all modules used in test only, but it might give a better indicator as to what is used by the library code and what is part of the test suite.

    It would be helpful if authors noted the 'has_tests_in_t_dir' CPANTS indicator, but then CPANTS listing 'HTML-Widgets-Index' as the definitive source of 'Test' probably needs investigating. 02packages.details.txt.gz should be the definitive source, as used by the CPAN and CPANPLUS installers.

    • > 1. Filter based on the 'requires' and/or 'recommends' entries in META.yml. If there is no META.yml, assume all pre-requisites are required.

      I'm working on this one already, separating the weight and volatility graphs out into the different dependency layers (configure, build and runtime).

      > It would be helpful if authors noted the 'has_tests_in_t_dir' CPANTS indicator, but then CPANTS listing 'HTML-Widgets-Index' as the definitive source of 'Test' probably needs investigating. 02packages.details.txt.g

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