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RE: Why does setup insist on trying to install colordiff?
On 28 February 2008 15:05, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
>> It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
>> manually set the package to "Skip" in the chooser. Frankly it's a hundred
>> times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny.
>
> My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
> of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I
> brought it up.
Oh, ouch. Maybe until we get this sorted out we should remove the
dependencies.
> What is the bug?
>
> Where is the mandatory/optional flags for modules?
Nobody's quite sure where exactly the bug is yet, but how it's /supposed/ to
work is that everything in the "Base" category is mandatory, and everything
else is optional.
cheers,
DaveK
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