> I've sent patch 37994 for git.

It's on master.

> For grep:
> actually our `grep' package has pcre support.
> It's grep-final which doesn't:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (define grep-final
>   ;; The final grep.  Gzip holds a reference to it (via zgrep), so it must be
>   ;; built before gzip.
>   (let ((grep (with-boot5 (package-with-bootstrap-guile grep))))
>     (package/inherit grep
>                      (inputs (alist-delete "pcre" (package-inputs grep)))
>                      (native-inputs `(("perl" ,perl-boot0))))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Is there a reason for removing pcre here?
> It does not add more than 2 MiB to the closure size.  Maybe a graph
> simplification issue?

Any thought on the above?

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