From: LRN <lrn1986@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Python extraneous dependencies
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 03:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bde3e27-9e9d-f401-309a-3f82eeedc166@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c71e556.1c69fb81.cfc4c.fa1c@mx.google.com>
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On 24.02.2019 3:29, Steven Penny wrote:
> I noticed that "python36" requires "binutils". Further, I noticed this
> dependency chain:
>
> python36 > libuuid-devel > pkg-config > libglib2.0_0
>
> "binutils" is 5,863,216 bytes and "libglib" is 3,044,044 bytes. I am of the
> opinion we should not be including large dependencies like these
pkg-config has a built-in copy of glib partly for this reason.
P.S. Unrelated: Just noticed that cygwin ML auto-inserted signature is slightly
broken - it should have a space after "--", but doesn't. Whoever maintains this
mailing list, please fix that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-24 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-24 1:45 Steven Penny
2019-02-24 3:08 ` LRN [this message]
2019-02-25 2:24 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-02-25 13:54 ` Steven Penny
2019-02-26 5:31 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-02-26 9:48 ` Ray Donnelly
2019-03-26 2:39 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-26 14:08 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-26 18:25 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-26 18:58 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2019-03-26 23:09 ` Steven Penny
2019-04-21 15:46 ` Steven Penny
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