Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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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