From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61898 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2017 21:20:01 -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 61883 invoked by uid 89); 2 Oct 2017 21:20:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Ken, attn X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.244) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 21:20:00 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id v92LJv0w017927 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2017 17:19:58 -0400 Received: from [192.168.11.95] ([94.102.136.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id v92LJsAG004976 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2017 17:19:57 -0400 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: Ken Brown Message-ID: Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 21:20:00 -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: <87h8vhffn9.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=X X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 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. Ken