Re: perl_base not in Base ?

2021-12-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/30/2021 5:38 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Am 29.12.2021 um 17:12 schrieb Jon Turney: I think this was the case, at one time. As I said before, at least info still does; not directly, though (it requires a bunch of Perl module distribution that will then pull in perl_base at least). No

Re: perl_base not in Base ?

2021-12-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 29.12.2021 um 17:12 schrieb Jon Turney: I think this was the case, at one time. As I said before, at least info still does; not directly, though (it requires a bunch of Perl module distribution that will then pull in perl_base at least). -- Achim. (on the road :-)

Re: perl_base not in Base ?

2021-12-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 29.12.2021 um 15:25 schrieb Ken Brown: It makes sense to me to add it to Base.  Were there any objections when that was proposed before? I don't remember, honestly. There were/are a few problems w/ cygport trying to pull in perl as a dependency for perl_base, but I've patched

Re: perl_base not in Base ?

2021-12-29 Thread Jon Turney
On 29/12/2021 14:25, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/29/2021 3:51 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Am 28.12.2021 um 11:57 schrieb Marco Atzeri: I had the impression it was in the Base category @ perl_base sdesc: "Perl programming language interpreter" ldesc: "Perl programming language interpret

Re: perl_base not in Base ?

2021-12-29 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29.12.2021 15:25, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/29/2021 3:51 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Am 28.12.2021 um 11:57 schrieb Marco Atzeri: I had the impression it was in the Base category @ perl_base sdesc: "Perl programming language interpreter" ldesc: "Perl programming language int

Re: perl_base not in Base ?

2021-12-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/29/2021 3:51 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Am 28.12.2021 um 11:57 schrieb Marco Atzeri: I had the impression it was in the Base category @ perl_base sdesc: "Perl programming language interpreter" ldesc: "Perl programming language interpreter That split was indeed made to e

Re: perl_base not in Base ?

2021-12-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 28.12.2021 um 11:57 schrieb Marco Atzeri: I had the impression it was in the Base category @ perl_base sdesc: "Perl programming language interpreter" ldesc: "Perl programming language interpreter That split was indeed made to enable making it available for Base packages, bu

perl_base not in Base ?

2021-12-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi Achim, I had the impression it was in the Base category @ perl_base sdesc: "Perl programming language interpreter" ldesc: "Perl programming language interpreter Minimal install intended for use by Base packages." category: Interpreters Perl requires: cygwin libcrypt2 per

Re: perl_base

2018-04-07 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/7/2018 2:53 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: The first maintenance release for Perl 5.26 is coming up. The original idea of splitting the perl package up into perl_base and perl (like most GNU/Linux distros do) was to have a more lightweight package that satisfies most dependencies and could

perl_base

2018-04-07 Thread Achim Gratz
The first maintenance release for Perl 5.26 is coming up. The original idea of splitting the perl package up into perl_base and perl (like most GNU/Linux distros do) was to have a more lightweight package that satisfies most dependencies and could eventually be made a mandatory part of the