Removing git dependencies on perl5 and python27

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:24:06AM +0200, Franco Fichtner wrote:
> 
> > On 15. Jun 2018, at 10:10 AM, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mqudsi at neosmart.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 2:57 AM, Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:
> >> Last time I checked, building git without Perl broke submodules (which is a core feature that should work with a default installation).
> > 
> > I fully agree. Fortunately, (at least at a first glance) that does not
> > seem to be the case.
> 
> The bottom line is that excluding Perl and Python support from git
> will make it only usable for automated shell scripting.
> 
> Interactive parts require Perl or Python so there is nothing to be
> gained from breaking POLA for existing users of the git FreeBSD
> package or git software in general as any random tutorial out there
> may not work for FreeBSD anymore.
> 
> For emphasis, this is suboptimal at best...
> 
The best here is to wait for subpackages, which would allow to have git,
git-python, git-perl or something like that

Bapt
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