[PATCH] cygport: suppress spurious package dependencies

Achim Gratz Stromeko@nexgo.de
Sun Jun 14 10:53:12 GMT 2020


Achim Gratz writes:
>> What exactly are you trying to "fix" with this?
>
> The same thing as always: perl getting pulled in as a dependency for
> perl_base, which defeats the whole purpose of having a base package in
> the first place.  Again, the dependency extraction just doesn't quite
> work for things that have optional dependencies that are used if present
> and do no harm if not: cygport will always pull them in and makes them a
> hard requirement.
>
> There's an obvious copy&paste bug in the patch, btw.

The corrected patch can be had from:
https://repo.or.cz/cygport/rpm-style.git/commitdiff/46a1534b523ada57855f5412f683c77a29dbed00


Regards,
Achim.
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