Why does the nmap package depend on autohotkey?

[gbakeman]

Can anyone help me understand why the nmap package depends on autohotkey? I don't recall ever needing AHK before when installing nmap.

[pauby]

This exact question, and answer is in the Disqus comments, on the package page.

[gbakeman]

I only saw people questioning using the .installer package over the regular package, but no one questioning AHK in general. I did happen upon one comment mentioning issues with a silent install, which linked to this issue specifying a workaround of using AHK so I guess that answers my question.

[pauby]

This is a questions that's been raised a few times. I think it's something we should make clearer.

Thank you for finding it. Apologies it wasn't quite as straightforward as I was sure it was (I was confident I'd answered this in Disqus in the past).