cygport: check setup.hint?

[Ken Brown]

On 7/20/2012 5:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/20/2012 3:27 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On 2012-07-20 11:19, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> 1. The setup.hint generated for emacs (but not emacs-X11) erroneously
>>> listed perl and python in the "requires".  I'm attaching my .cygport
>>> file and the associated patches in case you want to try to replicate
>>> this.
>>
>> /usr/bin/grep-changelog is a perl script, and there are python modules
>
> Ah, I missed that.  In the past it wasn't picked up by __list_deps.
>
>> in /usr/share/emacs/$PV/etc used by python.el.  I'd say in this case
>> that the perl dep is correct, but python is optional and could probably
>> be ignored.
>>
>> I'm just not sure how to handle that.  AFAICS REQUIRES shouldn't
>> override autogeneration; there are plenty of cases where it will be
>> correct but incomplete and we just need to add.  Of course, you could
>> just continue using a pkg_name.hint for just that subpackage, but that
>> defeats the purpose.  I'm open to ideas here.
>
> How about something like [PKG_]REQUIRE_EXCLUDES for packages that we
> don't want to require?

Yaakov,

Any further thoughts about this?

Ken