On 11/05/13 01:49, Rick Patterson wrote:
I don't use Perl, but even if I did, I don't want my Cygwin bloated with stuff I didn't
ask for. I just wanted Vi, and I got a Perl programming environment instead that came
with a "free" vi editor.
In Fedora[1] and ArchLinux[2], vim is dependent on perl, so I don't
think Cygwin is doing anything out of the ordinary here.
Dave.
[1]
http://pkgs.org/fedora-18/fedora-i386/vim-enhanced-7.3.712-1.fc18.i686.rpm.html
[2]
http://pkgs.org/archlinux/archlinux-extra-i686/vim-runtime-7.3.918-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz.html
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