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Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:07:50 -0600
- Subject: Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl
- References: <loom.20090131T002706-17@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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Mark Geisert wrote:
> Is there some way the packages could be reworked so that an X-related install or
> update doesn't try to pull in perl? It gets tiresome having to uncheck
> util-linux and perl every time I update my set of machines with setup.exe.
I'm sorry you have something against perl, but it is a standard, if not
an essential, part of *NIX systems. The dependencies are correct;
startx calls mcookie, which is provided by util-linux.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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