From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: gnutls: Make perl a native-input. Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:19:29 +0100 Message-ID: <871sw84az2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170110213310.30512-1-david@craven.ch> <87pojufp1o.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41575) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRgE5-0007iR-Up for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:19:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRgE0-0002bF-Be for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:19:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: (David Craven's message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:03:51 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel David Craven skribis: >> Do you know what perl is used for in gnutls? I see it contains no >> references, but I also tried building without perl and everything seems >> fine. Perhaps we can just remove it? > > Anyone against simply removing perl as a dependency? I=E2=80=99m all for it if it has no effect! Like Mark said, it=E2=80=99s for =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.