Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl
Mark Geisert m...@maxrnd.com writes: In the interests of PTC I could try to figure out a better package to contain chkdupexe, or mcookie for that matter. Or recode chkdupexe as a shell script. Is anything else but startx using mcookie? If not, why not move it there. -- Fredrik Stax\ang | rot13: s...@hcqngr.hh.fr This is all you need to know about vi: ESC : q ! RET -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Is anything else but startx using mcookie? If not, why not move it there. Because mcookie comes from util-linux, not xinit, and that's where it's going to stay. Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkmKhmEACgkQpiWmPGlmQSPmjACfS3jxoJvZO2SzKUWiKIUj9yz7 RzsAn1lHDycF+IQuhQhRuniDV4qhkhK9 =1qfm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark Geisert wrote: Is there some way the packages could be reworked so that an X-related install or update doesn't try to pull in perl? It gets tiresome having to uncheck util-linux and perl every time I update my set of machines with setup.exe. I'm sorry you have something against perl, but it is a standard, if not an essential, part of *NIX systems. The dependencies are correct; startx calls mcookie, which is provided by util-linux. Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkmJFJYACgkQpiWmPGlmQSOKXgCdGQMZaO6W/cT+UTaGKDtHuVch NOsAoNWfE1O4ROzJTpJw39y5pMfCuMD/ =Xott -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl
Yaakov writes: Is there some way the packages could be reworked so that an X-related install or update doesn't try to pull in perl? It gets tiresome having to uncheck util-linux and perl every time I update my set of machines with setup.exe. I'm sorry you have something against perl, but it is a standard, if not an essential, part of *NIX systems. The dependencies are correct; startx calls mcookie, which is provided by util-linux. Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know I have a minority viewpoint on perl. But like a lot of folks I tend to install only the packages I need for my own development and for me that happens to not include perl. I figured out that util-linux contains the chkdupexe perl script, so that's likely why the util-linux package requires perl. It just seems kinda curious (in a vaguely broken way) that X itself doesn't require perl but one can't install or update Cygwin X without pulling in perl. Oh well. In the interests of PTC I could try to figure out a better package to contain chkdupexe, or mcookie for that matter. Or recode chkdupexe as a shell script. Ow, my head hurts just thinking about that. Much easier to uncheck the setup.exe box if I want to keep from installing perl. Thanks again Cheers, ..mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
xinit requires util-linux which requires perl
...and I'm trying to compute in a perl-free environment. Yes, really. Is there some way the packages could be reworked so that an X-related install or update doesn't try to pull in perl? It gets tiresome having to uncheck util-linux and perl every time I update my set of machines with setup.exe. Thanks for any concurrence on this, ..mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
