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Re: Request package updates for Poppler, Subversion and Git
- From: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 13:20:53 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Request package updates for Poppler, Subversion and Git
- References: <qtoada$7sbr$1@blaine.gmane.org>
On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 18:50:34 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Keep in mind you will then have to re-do it just after the new year for
> the Perl update.
Not necessarily. I know people have disagreed with this in the past, but I have
looked at this again and it seems that not all distros require Perl with a Git
install. For example Fedora "git-core" only requires:
Requires: less
Requires: openssh-clients
Requires: zlib >= 1.2
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/git/sources/spec
Some notable scripts would not work, like "git add --interactive", but Cygwin
could have a "git" and "git-core" to deal with that. Personally I have installed
Git without Perl for some years without issue.
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