Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>]

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.


Yaakov


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