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On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote:
> Because of this dependency line
>
> man
>   groff
>    perl

The groff package includes several helper programs written in Perl: 
afmtodit, groffer, and grog.

Red Hat and Mandriva split these utilities out into a separate 
package[*] but that would be something you'd have to prevail on cgf to 
change.


[*] http://goo.gl/HcWx99

> Note this issue is only with the 64-bit version, the base 32-bit Cygwin install
> does not require Perl.

32-bit Cygwin still ships groff 1.21.  64-bit Cygwin ships groff 1.22.2. 
  cgf probably added the requirement to his setup.hint file after 
upgrading the package.  Whenever he rebuilds 1.22.2 for 32-bit, I expect 
32-bit Cygwin to start requiring Perl, too, unless he splits out the 
Perl programs into a separate package.

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