From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 107836 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2019 15:46:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 107829 invoked by uid 89); 21 Apr 2019 15:46:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=UD:cygwin.com, cygwincom, cygwin.com, Mar X-HELO: mail-ot1-f51.google.com Received: from mail-ot1-f51.google.com (HELO mail-ot1-f51.google.com) (209.85.210.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:46:49 +0000 Received: by mail-ot1-f51.google.com with SMTP id u15so7804018otq.10 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 08:46:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:date:from:references:subject:to:user-agent; bh=wuQs8PBD7gpcB5snIMgsvta/zEYfFDpB7ja16cSgCMU=; b=Itkk0vaXtTUlnrH8NusEIeJMMzteq4yH9sDbqbmby4s763ex5z22s0s5ykGRtvObGG fC/1CnIP2A3MWPdRRcXZ86ShwGKaj2Ex7zuJdsp5texHom9/+Ndf2VAMQR34tjBf36+X uD7Pib0vGL1bVdWe+cTgMuqAqFydJJXdwUexZ/m64cjlKCeTYvi22l2r1qAIzZjB6vBf 6+JF82KQVaKt56ARHFEIFjN/SJ+zYe43g0iMTTIIODbwvyIP4R5k5yMlFACUzYaMb7+q S+7zPa2yu1N97YAivZ5zwffeTroNrc+n5HGk+Sk21VshwK6tH3WuUN2dQIARyf6Bx9iz MG6w== Return-Path: Received: from 6jK ([2605:6000:9fc0:56:f5e9:d698:78ec:17bb]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 189sm4616994oii.58.2019.04.21.08.46.45 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 21 Apr 2019 08:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5cbc9066.1c69fb81.2fdc.e977@mx.google.com> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:46:00 -0000 From: Steven Penny References: <1c57f64c080acc1bd5c2d2c0320e84d6baf217da.camel@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Python extraneous dependencies To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8; format=flowed User-Agent: Tryst/2.8.0 (cup.github.io/suede/tryst) X-SW-Source: 2019-04/txt/msg00147.txt.bz2 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple