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?