Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 18 03:41:00 GMT 2014


On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:29:53 -0400, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 8:16:41 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On 2014-07-08 18:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>>> At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 12:15:22 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>>> On 08/07/2014 17:47, Jack Duthen wrote:
>>>> util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was not yet noticed.
>>>
>>>> man was recently changed, so this dependency was likely missed,
>>>> specially as it seems hidden inside the man binary.
>>>
>>> Yes,  this is true. I'll add it. I'm collecting a few things together,
> 
>> Careful: right now util-linux requires: perl, so people will complain
>> if it gets pulled as is.  I'll attempt to address this soon.
> 
> Yes, I just noticed that.

The new util-linux-2.24.2 no longer requires perl.


Yaakov



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