Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl

2009-02-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-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

Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl

2009-02-04 Thread Fredrik Staxeng
Mark Geisert 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...@hcqn

Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Geisert
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 agains

Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl

2009-02-03 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-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 setu

xinit requires util-linux which requires perl

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Geisert
...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.