From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 111315 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2017 02:36:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 106806 invoked by uid 89); 3 Oct 2017 02:36:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Canada, canada, calgary, alberta X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 02:36:48 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id zD4fdRrC9I8mCzD4gdUg5K; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:36:47 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=HahkdmM8 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=xNf9USuDAAAA:8 a=CtdfD2QaHRPgaR1Fwg8A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=E-KDFZZf_ZoA:10 a=SEwjQc04WA-l_NiBhQ7s:22 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <87vakh5bw0.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87d16g6qaz.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <8760c5be8q.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <0d4ebc47-46c7-0fe5-bc85-1dd1793076ae@cornell.edu> <87h8vhffn9.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <0fb7f16d-5a73-95f7-7b2b-064db5a2b950@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 02:36:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfEgVtcRB4f6jrSq6SFpuYKgUFNxsvcAExQb/LBHmSF/OV6sPsYaeHW68wXc99Q2xUHnNis6YZiED5jsHDobmbQf9t6UPQ+adOC7V0Dpb4rSP8ud+Tpp3 G7K482isziRX382hmnvEAstQIcar9M++kntkad/sEaIiFPgH7T3/RXDkOSTm4/HW6YYzNtlDyqWJGw== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On 2017-10-02 15:19, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/2/2017 4:39 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Ken Brown writes: >>> On 9/30/2017 4:52 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >>>> Am 29.09.2017 um 20:06 schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz: >>>>> texinfo >>>> >>>> Installs under /usr/share/texinfo and seems to use captive Perl >>>> distributions, maybe we should change that (i.e. move >>>> perl-libintl-perl, perl-Text-Unidecode etc. to their own CPAN >>>> derived package). >>> >>> More importantly, it installs compiled XS modules into /usr/lib/texinfo. >> >> I need to have a look on what the main GNU/Linux distributions are doing >> with this. > > It's the same on Debian: > >   https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/texinfo/filelist > > I haven't checked any other. > >> WOuld it be possible to cleanly excise those as dependent >> packages? > > I could certainly do that, but I wouldn't want to unless there's a GNU/Linux > model to follow.  I don't think Cygwin should use special packaging that no one > else uses. Debian/Ubuntu have libintl{-,-xs-}perl packages but not as texinfo dependencies. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada