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Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?


On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote:
Because of this dependency line

man
  groff
   perl

The groff package includes several helper programs written in Perl: afmtodit, groffer, and grog.

Red Hat and Mandriva split these utilities out into a separate package[*] but that would be something you'd have to prevail on cgf to change.



[*] http://goo.gl/HcWx99

Note this issue is only with the 64-bit version, the base 32-bit Cygwin install
does not require Perl.

32-bit Cygwin still ships groff 1.21. 64-bit Cygwin ships groff 1.22.2. cgf probably added the requirement to his setup.hint file after upgrading the package. Whenever he rebuilds 1.22.2 for 32-bit, I expect 32-bit Cygwin to start requiring Perl, too, unless he splits out the Perl programs into a separate package.

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