On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Kostya Altukhov wrote on Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:55 AM:
>
> > requires: cygwin perl
>
> > ldesc: "A wrapper for the diff command.
>
> If this is a wrapper to diff, shouldn't it require diffutils?
> (Please excuse me if this is terribly naïve.)
I think you're right. If the package does not make sense to install
without diffutils, then it should pull in diffutils.
A minor point of confusion might be that diffutils is in Base, and thus
will be automatically installed anyway. But the "requires:" line should
still indicate the dependency.
> Thanks for packaging this. I'm looking forward to having it show up in
> the mirrors!
FWIW, another little-used tool is the "less.sh" script that comes with
vim. Piping the output of "diff" into that gives you a very nice syntax
highlighting of diffs.
It's good to have alternative tools, however.
Igor
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