Re: VIM and Perl

On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 11:46 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> I can do it. I used to do it all the time.

This is the right solution, then. I wish I could give you more direct
advice for how to remove the dependency, but I've been spoiled by
Portage: a simple config file change is all that's needed in that
system. Since you mentioned Artix, hopefully pacman's pkgbuild system
is equally as easy/straightforward.

> Why would vim need perl built in as a dependency.

I don't know, off-hand. Some searching didn't turn up a definitive
result either. It is an optional dependency, but the dependency is
build-time, not run-time, so I'm assuming it is used for some features
that are enabled by the vim package from the distribution. Most
systems will have packages depending on perl, so the package
maintainers think "the average vim user will have perl installed
anyway, so why not enable those optional features?"

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