Base Cygwin now requires Python?

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Mon May 20 08:36:00 GMT 2013


On 2013-05-16 01:41, Steven Penny wrote:
> Because of this dependency line
>
> mintty
>   cygutils
>    desktop-file-utils
>     libglib2.0_0
>      python-gobject
>       python
>
> A base Cygwin install now requires Python. Can this be changed? While Python is
> a good language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base
> install.

Indeed; libglib2.0_0 should not require python-gobject; that was a false 
positive created by the gdb.py support files.  I have removed this 
dependency on sourceware.


Yaakov





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