On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote: > Aaron Schneider writes: >> Since a lot of people are having issues because 'perl_vendor' is not >> installed when should, wouldn't be better to set perl_vendor as a >> mandatory dependency of perl so just everyone gets it installed? I >> guess package size won't be an issue.
> No, please don't — I have compiled my own perl packages and need > perl_vendor to stay out of the way. If anything this would be a hint > that hiding packages in perl_vendor, while helping to keep the number of > packages down, doesn't help people finding what they need. I agree on the not hiding packages in perl_vendor part. Once I realized that I was missing XML::LibXML, I checked whether it was available and, finding that it for some reason wasn’t (anymore, I thought, as I had used it previously with Perl 5.10), went the cpan route, which led me down the rabbit’s hole. It’s impossible to know what the perl_vendor package contains unless you actually install it. Split it up, make XML::LibXML available as a separate package and add its dependencies. -- 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
