On Dec 16 13:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-12-16 11:46, Andrey Repin wrote: > >>>>The only trouble I see with this is currently Cygwin OpenSSL has Perl > >>>>dependency. > >>> > >>>That's likely a bug. > > > >>The openssl package comes with two perl scripts. The dependency > >>gets added automatically. > > > >That's a reoccurring issue with dependency walker. Perhaps, we need a way to > >tell it to not include specific packages as a dependency, if we know it would > >be a mistake to do so? Rather than manually fix it again, and again, and... > > Those dependencies are correct; perl scripts require perl to run, and if you > pretend to ignore the dependency, then we end up with complaints that the > scripts won't run. *That* would be a mistake. > > >These Perl scripts are nonessential for OpenSSL functionality, and not > >required to be used, unless you have very specific needs. > > Fair enough. In that case, the correct solution is to create a separate > openssl-perl package with those (like Fedora does), and leave those outside > of Base.
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-12/msg00011.html HTH, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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