Re: OpenSSL as Base package

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

On Dec 16 13:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2014-12-16 11:46, Andrey Repin wrote:
> >>>>The only trouble I see with this is currently Cygwin OpenSSL has Perl
> >>>>dependency.
> >>>
> >>>That's likely a bug.
> >
> >>The openssl package comes with two perl scripts. The dependency
> >>gets added automatically.
> >
> >That's a reoccurring issue with dependency walker. Perhaps, we need a way to
> >tell it to not include specific packages as a dependency, if we know it would
> >be a mistake to do so? Rather than manually fix it again, and again, and...
> 
> Those dependencies are correct; perl scripts require perl to run, and if you
> pretend to ignore the dependency, then we end up with complaints that the
> scripts won't run.  *That* would be a mistake.
> 
> >These Perl scripts are nonessential for OpenSSL functionality, and not
> >required to be used, unless you have very specific needs.
> 
> Fair enough.  In that case, the correct solution is to create a separate
> openssl-perl package with those (like Fedora does), and leave those outside
> of Base.

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-12/msg00011.html


HTH,
Corinna

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