Yaakov writes: > > Is there some way the packages could be reworked so that an X-related > > install or update doesn't try to pull in perl? It gets tiresome having > > to uncheck util-linux and perl every time I update my set of machines > > with setup.exe. > > I'm sorry you have something against perl, but it is a standard, if not > an essential, part of *NIX systems. The dependencies are correct; > startx calls mcookie, which is provided by util-linux.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know I have a minority viewpoint on perl. But like a lot of folks I tend to install only the packages I need for my own development and for me that happens to not include perl. I figured out that util-linux contains the chkdupexe perl script, so that's likely why the util-linux package requires perl. It just seems kinda curious (in a vaguely broken way) that X itself doesn't require perl but one can't install or update Cygwin X without pulling in perl. Oh well. In the interests of PTC I could try to figure out a better package to contain chkdupexe, or mcookie for that matter. Or recode chkdupexe as a shell script. Ow, my head hurts just thinking about that. Much easier to uncheck the setup.exe box if I want to keep from installing perl. Thanks again & Cheers, ..mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/