On 09/10/2013 08:25 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> >I did a TC5 minimal install last night, which omitted mc, my
most
> >used cmdline tool. So:
> >
> ># yum install mc
> >... installing for dependencies:
> >gpm-libs (which I never ever use)
> >perl* (29 packages)...
> >
> >Seriously? What does mc need perl for?
see /usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d
So unless you try to open deb, rpm package and few other format you do not need perl.
So it is merely nice-to-have. Usually called soft-dependency, which unfortunately our
tools still does not know.
Does somebody knows when we can expect soft dependencies in rpm?
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Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS
Red Hat, Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys