X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=DduCT t2F/mdlQ+0HmU7LEAmqXZkgLWl+JGibum+ppJjrIUund6LhksTm0vqhmHA/hU+oz HDVIrwTkEB9aBb2yXSrOtBPB3UUiZNEZR74lha/z9DSMRjANPrdox/YpWBdM7FDi 3uyF5N+lB8tpiRtmdNXTmIkDwTtYZ9So0DeXUA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=/FZzvJTUc9Y NcItF6QWbsUDXXyY=; b=oRCF0g/QL5khektzf7utfDRrVE+WG6DiDtKmgoU/QdP w0Lw7JsfZwRkMMomHmzuq6upsElC552BUmh1mUvso3i8pkoC6YKPwTz27d5VxQEy VlGbbksqZdHhr2IFuQUJ5Obf4R076o3G3tFLDa6jQqIeF7j8GBGOOdQKQBGAFZwk = Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: texlive-collection-basic requires Perl to be removed References: <5ab46201 DOT 1c69fb81 DOT cf3e2 DOT 269f AT mx DOT google DOT com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:53:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <5ab46201.1c69fb81.cf3e2.269f@mx.google.com> (Steven Penny's message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:10:09 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <874ll6wx5p.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT Steven Penny writes: > which is a Perl script. I understand that "texlive-collection-basic" requires > "perl_base", but if a user removed Perl first then uninstallation of texlive > would fail. Perhaps "update_tlpdb" could be rewritten as a shell script. The whole point of splitting off perl_base from perl was to eventually make it available as a "Base" package so that it could be relied upon by other parts of the system. I don't remember why I didn't put it into Base at the time, but maybe we should do that now? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldUserWavetables -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple