setup.hints which mention Base in their category

Frank Fesevur ffes@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jun 6 17:40:00 GMT 2007


At 6-6-2007 18:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  6 11:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> So the question is: Does this list look right.  I'm not sure about
>> brltty and gdbm.  And I also wonder about ncurses, readline, and zlib.
>> While they probably do get used by default anyway, I wonder why they
>> have to be in Base.  Is there a broken dependency somewhere?  If not, it
>> seems like they would be loaded automatically by anything in Base which
>> needed them.
> 
> I agree for gdbm and everything else which is basically a library
> (ncurses, readline, zlib).  I don't care exactly for brltty, we can also
> put it into Utils.  The two problems I mentioned on the list should be
> solved anyway.

One other thing... brltty requires util-linux, which required perl. So 
now perl became part of Base.

Regards,
Frank



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