FS#64468 - [chicken] unnecessary tk dependency

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by lexi hale (velartrill) - Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 03:30 GMT
Last edited by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Saturday, 04 January 2020, 13:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
the chicken scheme interpreter/compiler "depends" on the tk widget toolkit even though there is no actual dependency - neither the interpreter nor the compiler nor compiled code nor the standard library, libchicken, are linked with tcl or tk and both run without issue if tcl/tk are forcibly uninstalled. while a tcl/tk "egg" (modules) is available for chicken5, it is not part of the core toolchain, and its dependencies should not be conflated with those of chicken itself, which depends only on glibc and libm.

Additional info:
* package version(s): 5.1.0-1.

Steps to reproduce:
install chicken from the community repositories
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Closed by  Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Saturday, 04 January 2020, 13:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Saturday, 04 January 2020, 13:10 GMT
Thanks for reporting. I made tk an optional dependency. The updated package will appear in [community] shortly.

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