From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13704 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2018 05:07:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13690 invoked by uid 89); 24 Mar 2018 05:07:31 -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,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=puppy, H*UA:github.com, HX-Gm-Message-State:AElRT7H, neon X-HELO: mail-ot0-f195.google.com Received: from mail-ot0-f195.google.com (HELO mail-ot0-f195.google.com) (74.125.82.195) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 24 Mar 2018 05:07:30 +0000 Received: by mail-ot0-f195.google.com with SMTP id 108-v6so15479977otv.3 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:07:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:to:subject:references :user-agent; bh=7EvUPzHve53PVr4fCuES6kuZIZmungzg8qARso/gUIQ=; b=ednvTMsCcAniBSmA1nnk+2pmh3Brb4CTHr55Cfbz1hn39nYGgoBjGEll+bCkvjLuZx v20ZI+Elu0Wsu62Rk3YtVY+8hTViEbtKsjgrZ7ZdAF2uwjd5zAYkAPkCp3jZYg9aIAo1 tyT7nNAjsu6hx7rJaB4Q37EfS+Yc/58C/yPpCdMy8cNpg55bd7ZQCLAyWnKtIsJJ5YH5 +emABvHMiUvwXE3GZfBGnxP3tV4MZKam0xSoDHEltjgtL61thtq4CN7hbI0a/WMTOoH0 I0kZC0fCgIrcQRHSwkpmapHvlsT2RYLtdw7H4ATZ8EcDVwlCYTK4NNcwsu4P1Abew08D 4nYg== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7H/YRTkB1WHfqwnZg3h3jdZWpOJXjH5g4eIE1AaWdFb11hU13L0 Yz+Y0/CdhtVM+ETXNbiIJ9TaZQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx4+S176O+OxrfwTod5cMml7EHOFDp0AH68H/kYUWkMLhVn45+59HNpS1To2qARkFDPURZkTveQ== X-Received: by 2002:a9d:470b:: with SMTP id a11-v6mr5258377otf.97.1521868048517; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from qZz ([2605:6000:9fc0:56:c2a:f066:2911:f71b]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w69-v6sm6026780otb.46.2018.03.23.22.07.27 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5ab5dd0f.1c69fb81.abe2d.67ed@mx.google.com> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 05:51:00 -0000 From: Steven Penny X-Google-Original-From: Steven Penny To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: texlive-collection-basic requires Perl to be removed References: <874ll6wx5p.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8; format=flowed User-Agent: Tryst/2.4.0 (github.com/svnpenn/tryst) X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00393.txt.bz2 On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:53:54, Achim Gratz wrote: > The whole point of splitting off perl_base from perl was to eventually > make it available as a "Base" package so that it could be relied upon by > other parts of the system. I don't remember why I didn't put it into > Base at the time, but maybe we should do that now? my knee-jerk reaction was to be against that, as I do not want to see "Base" get too large. However it might be a good idea. I just tested every major Unix distro, and some independent ones. These all come with Perl preinstalled: - Linux Mint - Debian - Ubuntu - Solus - Fedora - antiX - Arch - CentOS (based on Red Hat) - PCLinuxOS (based on Mandriva) - Puppy - Lubuntu - KDE neon - Xubuntu - Gentoo - 4MLinux - GeckoLinux (based on openSUSE) - KaOS - Tiny Core (based on Damn Small) - NixOS here are some major and independent distros that do not come with Perl preinstalled: - Slackware - FreeBSD - NuTyX (based on LFS) - Alpine - OpenBSD -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple