From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cygport: suppress spurious package dependencies
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 19:56:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9k8t4mw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63fc7e28274461000864b6deaa7ae11c9df21966.camel@cygwin.com> (Yaakov Selkowitz's message of "Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:32:29 -0400")
Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 13:51 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> The automatically generated dependencies sometimes have unwanted
>> components. This patch allows to suppress these on a per-package basis,
>> rather than requiring to patch the generated hint files after the fact.
>
> What exactly are you trying to "fix" with this?
The same thing as always: perl getting pulled in as a dependency for
perl_base, which defeats the whole purpose of having a base package in
the first place. Again, the dependency extraction just doesn't quite
work for things that have optional dependencies that are used if present
and do no harm if not: cygport will always pull them in and makes them a
hard requirement.
There's an obvious copy&paste bug in the patch, btw.
Regards,
Achim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-03 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-03 11:51 Achim Gratz
2020-06-03 16:32 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-06-03 17:56 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2020-06-14 10:53 ` Achim Gratz
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