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Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
> I haven't seen any discussion on this, but I do wonder why does
> util-linux bring in a dependancy on Perl?

/usr/bin/chkdupexe: perl script text executable
/usr/bin/scriptreplay: perl script text executable

> I've so far avoided installing
> Perl and don't feel like installing it now either.
> And it seems that Perl in turns brings in a dependancy on both libdb4.2
> *and* libdb4.3 - this doesn't like right to me either; certainly doesn't
> make me happier...
> 
> Any good reason for these dependancies? Any (reasonable) way to get rid
> of these dependancies?

uncheck perl and click (paraphrased:) "yes I know I'm breaking 
dependencies but I really know what I'm doing" in setup.exe?

You'd have to do that every time you update util-linux -- but that'll be 
rare I think.

--
Chuck

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