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Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:56:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?
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On 2014-10-31 14:35, Ken Brown wrote:
On 10/31/2014 12:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
Because of this dependency line
This issue is back again, now with
bash
_update-info-dir
texinfo
perl
This is a side effect of the fact that I switched to cygport for
packaging when I took over as texinfo maintainer. cygport (correctly)
detected perl as a dependency because texinfo provides perl scripts. In
fact, the most important program in texinfo is /usr/bin/makeinfo, which
is a symlink to a perl script.
I'll wait for guidance from above before doing anything about this.
Fedora splits out texinfo into 3 packages:
1) texinfo: makeinfo, texi2any, pod2texi, /usr/share/texinfo,
/usr/share/info/texinfo*
2) info: info, infokey, install-info, /usr/share/info/info*
3) texinfo-tex: texindex, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, pdftexi2dvi,
/usr/share/texmf*/tex/texinfo
In this setup, only 'info' would be required by _update-info-dir and
should not have any Perl dependencies. texinfo would be in 'Devel' and
would have Perl dependencies, while texinfo-tex would also have texlive
dependencies.
Yaakov
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