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* [ATN: git maintainer] Git package depends on python
@ 2016-05-16 23:15 Jon Ross
  2016-05-16 23:24 ` Warren Young
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jon Ross @ 2016-05-16 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: “cygwin@cygwin.com”

It looks like the git package installs python as a dependency. It
causes problems if you need a different win python runtime for your
projects.


Also, git doesn't seem to use python. I un-install python via setup
and git continues to work fine (at least for my typical usage). Nor
can I find any python files in the git package.


Seems a heavyweight dependency, and it doesn't seem to be used. Why is it there?


$ cygcheck.exe -fv /usr/bin/git
/usr/bin/git: found in package git-2.8.0-1


$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-21 22:14 x86_64 Cygwin

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