Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

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.

--
Yaakov


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