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Re: Updated setup.ini with descriptions, categories, and dependencies
Hi!
Monday, 27 August, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
>>cvs:
>> cgf: ash cygwin perl tcsh zlib
>>
>> comments: well, perl isn't actually *necessary* for cvs itself, it's
>>only used by a few additional scripts. Also, tcsh is not required at
>>all. OTOH, the cygwin build of cvs requires gdbm. And crypt. And
>>'pr.exe' which is part of textutils. Also, since the cvs source
>>includes its own version of zlib, it doesn't really depend on the
>>external zlib package.
CF> I wonder why the RPM version is so skewed from what you are relaying here.
CF> However, if some part of cvs needs perl to operate then this is a dependency.
these are the things that had always annoyed me when i installed a
bunch of RPMs. i know that some scripts in cvs's contrib/ require perl
to run, but i bet many of us (myself included) will never ever need
those scripts. Perhaps we can break cvs package into 'cvs' and
'cvs-contrib' or something like that?
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