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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