Bug 124436

Summary:	gentoolkit pointless DEPEND on perl
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	REdOG <bugzilla>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	trivial	CC:	michael
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description REdOG 2006-02-28 09:35:06 UTC

since all of the tools in gentoolkit are python or bash it seems quite silly to still DEPEND on perl

Comment 1 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-28 10:20:36 UTC

It is needed for qpkg, which while deprecated is still installed. (Its one use of perl is trivially changed, or qpkg could just be removed, though.)

Comment 2 michael@smith-li.com 2008-02-21 17:07:17 UTC

echangelog also uses perl. Recommend close as invalid.

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-26 09:54:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> echangelog also uses perl. Recommend close as invalid.

echangelog is from app-portage/gentoolkit-dev

Comment 4 michael@smith-li.com 2008-02-26 14:07:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > echangelog also uses perl. Recommend close as invalid.
> 
> echangelog is from app-portage/gentoolkit-dev

You're right, Jakub. In my defense I was working on bug 211055 when I posted comment #2. As you can see, gentoolkit-dev may get merged into gentoolkit in the future; however, I would like to see all of gentoolkit use python at some point in the (possibly distant) future.