Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 10/31/2014 3:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2014-10-31 14:35, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 10/31/2014 12:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> > > > Because of this dependency line
> > >
> > > This issue is back again, now with
> > >
> > > bash
> > >    _update-info-dir
> > >      texinfo
> > >        perl
> >
> > This is a side effect of the fact that I switched to cygport for
> > packaging when I took over as texinfo maintainer.  cygport (correctly)
> > detected perl as a dependency because texinfo provides perl scripts.  In
> > fact, the most important program in texinfo is /usr/bin/makeinfo, which
> > is a symlink to a perl script.
> >
> > I'll wait for guidance from above before doing anything about this.
>
> 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.

Ken

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