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Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?


On 11/1/2014 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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...

Packages with an info file don't automatically get a dependency on texinfo (in the current setup). So this must have been done manually by Jari for some reason. But I think packages with an info file do get an automatic dependency on _update-info-dir, so that will bring in the new info package.

In any case, I was thinking the new info package ought to be in the Base category anyway, for the same reason that man-db is in Base. But I don't have strong feelings about this.

Ken

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