From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cygport: suppress spurious package dependencies
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:53:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2op7wbr.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9k8t4mw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Wed, 03 Jun 2020 19:56:23 +0200")
Achim Gratz writes:
>> What exactly are you trying to "fix" with this?
>
> The same thing as always: perl getting pulled in as a dependency for
> perl_base, which defeats the whole purpose of having a base package in
> the first place. Again, the dependency extraction just doesn't quite
> work for things that have optional dependencies that are used if present
> and do no harm if not: cygport will always pull them in and makes them a
> hard requirement.
>
> There's an obvious copy&paste bug in the patch, btw.
The corrected patch can be had from:
https://repo.or.cz/cygport/rpm-style.git/commitdiff/46a1534b523ada57855f5412f683c77a29dbed00
Regards,
Achim.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-14 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-03 11:51 Achim Gratz
2020-06-03 16:32 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-06-03 17:56 ` Achim Gratz
2020-06-14 10:53 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
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