On 29/12/2021 14:25, Ken Brown wrote:
On 12/29/2021 3:51 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Am 28.12.2021 um 11:57 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
I had the impression it was in the Base category
@ perl_base
sdesc: "Perl programming language interpreter"
ldesc: "Perl programming language interpreter
That split was indeed made to enable making it available for Base
packages, but that decision was never made I think.
It makes sense to me to add it to Base. Were there any objections when
that was proposed before?
Or is it supposed to be pulled by another Base program ?
I think this was the case, at one time.
I believe something (chkdupexe?) in the 'util-linux' package (which is
in base) used to be written in perl, and so brought in perl_base.
I think it's since been rewritten in C. So nothing in the base category
requires perl_base currently (and hopefully in the future :)).
Base packages should not pull in non-Base packages, but it appears
that info currently fails that requirement.
A lot of packages fail that requirement. I don't think it should be a
requirement. To me, Base packages are those that we've decided should
be in every Cygwin installation. If that forces other packages to be
installed, so be it.
Yeah. It shouldn't be the case that libX is in base just because it's
required by P, so we have to notice, remember and check if it can be
removed when P changes to require libY instead...
