Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sat Nov 1 15:51:00 GMT 2014
On Oct 31 16:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>On 10/31/2014 3:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>Sounds good to me. I'll repackage within a few days. Thanks.
> >
> >We need to make sure that the existing dependencies to texinfo
> >are still correct afterwards. 22 packages are affected:
> >
> > _update-info-dir
>
> info
>
> > a2ps
>
> texinfo-tex
>
> > autoconf all of them
>
> Not sure this is needed.
>
> > automake all of them
>
> texinfo, although this is a soft dependency.
>
> > cygport
>
> info (minimal build environment)
>
> > docbook2X
>
> texinfo
>
> > indent
>
> Not sure this is needed either.
The only reason I can think of is that indent comes with an info file
/usr/share/info/indent.info. But that would mean we'd have to add
dependencies to the info package for all packages coming with an info
page. Analog for packages containing man pages a depedeny to man-db.
This might go a bit far, I guess...
Corinna
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