Yum is ill again

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Sep 3 20:13:20 UTC 2007


mcforum at bellsouth.net wrote:

> Mike
> My funk is not with Perl per se, but with the continuing proliferation of
> dependencies on which the target package is not really dependent.  kdesdk
> gets along perfectly well on other distributions without perl.

s/perfectly well/mostly well, provided you don't try to use the
functionality that relies on perl/
:)

Now that you mention it, wow, many, *many* kde depend on perl.  I'd be
interested to find out if anyone truly was able to make a kde functional
without perl... hmm...


-- Rex




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