Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>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.

Actually, I didn't upload the 64-bit groff.  This is one of the reasons
why I had reservations about people other than the package maintainers
uploading packages.  The end result is that I'm forced to deal with
someone else's decision.  This has been the case for a few of my
packages, uploaded during the 64-bit transition.  If I had created the
package I might have paused at the perl dependency since clearly groff
is part of base.

In retrospect, it would have potentially made sense to use the same
versions and packaging for the 64-bit as for the 32-bit.  That might
have minimized this type of problem.

cgf

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