[SyncEvolution] Comparison was impossible.

[Patrick Ohly]

On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 23:22 +0200, Marc Bantle wrote:
> Am Montag, den 03.08.2015, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Marc Bantle:
> > And yes, the perl system installed seems to be very "reduced", for some
> > reason.
> 
> Ubuntu touch comes with package perl-base instead of 
> perl since OTA-5 to save 17MB root-fs. Previous versions 
> had a full perl package aboard. According to the
> developers, none of the packages delivered with the base 
> system (apt-)depends on perl. 
> 
> I checked syncevolution-common and it does neither. So
> should syncevolution-common add a dependency to perl?

It's not a hard dependency, more like a recommendation.

>  Or 
> is there maybe a way to do a detailed compare without the 
> Base64 and MD5 modules from package perl.

There's a long-standing feature request to rewrite synccompare in C++,
but no-one had the interest and time to do it.

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