Re: Managing dependencies

2015-01-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 January 2015 at 22:57, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > > Your email is very confusing; did you forget to send a part of it? > ​No. Apologies for the confusion. What was confusing?​ > Users won't care about any difference, and honestly no matter which > language they're written in they are unl

Re: Managing dependencies

2015-01-16 Thread Jerome Leclanche
2015-01-16 23:46 GMT+01:00 Reuben Thomas : > On 16 January 2015 at 22:44, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >> >> xdg-utils does not depend on perl; all the tools are in shell. You >> should talk to your distro. > > > If you read back to the beginning of my thread, you'll see my suggestion to > use Perl. In

Re: Managing dependencies

2015-01-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 January 2015 at 22:44, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > xdg-utils does not depend on perl; all the tools are in shell. You > should talk to your distro. > ​If you read back to the beginning of my thread, you'll see my suggestion to use Perl. Indeed, currently xdg-utils does not.​

Re: Managing dependencies

2015-01-16 Thread Jerome Leclanche
xdg-utils does not depend on perl; all the tools are in shell. You should talk to your distro. J. Leclanche 2015-01-16 22:11 GMT+01:00 Steven Stewart-Gallus : > Hello. > > I'm just some random guy but anyways. > > As a user and administrator, I dislike excess dependencies on my > system such as P

Re: Managing dependencies

2015-01-16 Thread Steven Stewart-Gallus
Hello. I'm just some random guy but anyways. As a user and administrator, I dislike excess dependencies on my system such as Perl but can always just remove the xdg-utils package if I really want to, so having xdg-utils depend on Perl isn't that bad a thing. As a programmer, I don't think C is t

Re: Managing dependencies

2015-01-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 January 2015 at 21:11, Steven Stewart-Gallus < sstewartgallu...@mylangara.bc.ca> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm just some random guy but anyways. > ​Thanks for commenting!​ > As a user and administrator, I dislike excess dependencies on my > system such as Perl but can always just remove the xdg