Re: Why does Git depend on perl?

2016-04-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: > This is standard git, not some exotic variant? Yes. Debian splits it into 'git' (the whole thing including those scripts) and 'git-core' (the absolute minimum), but most people install the full package and I

Re: Why does Git depend on perl?

2016-04-10 Thread Carlo Tambuatco
This is standard git, not some exotic variant? Sent from my iPod > On Apr 10, 2016, at 9:24 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Michael wrote: >> Why does git need perl? Yes, my perl was outdated -- why does git need it? >

Re: Why does Git depend on perl?

2016-04-10 Thread Michael
I was not aware that git, internally, has a bunch of perl scripts. Thank you. On 2016-04-10, at 6:24 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Michael wrote: > Why does git need perl? Yes, my perl was outdated -- why does git need

Re: Why does Git depend on perl?

2016-04-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Michael wrote: > Why does git need perl? Yes, my perl was outdated -- why does git need it? left-ear Z$ file /opt/local/libexec/git-core/* | grep perl /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive: a /opt/local/bin/perl5.22

Why does Git depend on perl?

2016-04-10 Thread Michael
Attempting to upgrade git gave me this in the output: ---> Computing dependencies for git ---> Dependencies to be installed: p5.22-authen-sasl p5.22-digest-hmac p5.22-digest-sha1 p5.22-gssapi p5.22-cgi p5.22-html-parser p5.22-html-tagset p5.22-error p5.22-net-smtp-ssl p5.22-io-socket-ssl