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From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Python extraneous dependencies
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5cbc9066.1c69fb81.2fdc.e977@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c57f64c080acc1bd5c2d2c0320e84d6baf217da.camel@cygwin.com>

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:58:12, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Nak.  ctypes is part of the Python standard library and therefore the
> dependency needs to be on the main package(s).
> 
> BTW, binutils is usually included by default in all but the most
> minimal base installs, so I'm not quite sure why you object so much to
> this requirement.

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-03/msg00589.html

Is it though? With both Debian and Ubuntu, binutils is a suggested package, not
a required one:

- https://packages.debian.org/stretch/python3.5
- https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python3.6


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-21 15:46 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
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 [this message]

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