perl_base not in Base ?
Marco Atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 14:36:19 GMT 2021
On 29.12.2021 15:25, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/29/2021 3:51 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Am 28.12.2021 um 11:57 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
>>> I had the impression it was in the Base category
>>>
>>> @ perl_base
>>> sdesc: "Perl programming language interpreter"
>>> ldesc: "Perl programming language interpreter
>>
>> That split was indeed made to enable making it available for Base
>> packages, but that decision was never made I think.
>
> It makes sense to me to add it to Base. Were there any objections when
> that was proposed before?
>
>>> Or is it supposed to be pulled by another Base program ?
>>
>> Base packages should not pull in non-Base packages, but it appears
>> that info currently fails that requirement.
>
> A lot of packages fail that requirement. I don't think it should be a
> requirement. To me, Base packages are those that we've decided should
> be in every Cygwin installation. If that forces other packages to be
> installed, so be it.
>
> Ken
I agree with Ken
The dependencies are very short
$ cygcheck-dep -q -R perl_base
perl_base: recursively requires ( cygwin libcrypt2 perl_autorebase
perl5_032 )
as perl_base provides perl5_032
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