On 17/2/19 10:37 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 2/16/19 4:36 PM, Christian Hesse wrote: >> Allan McRae via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> on Sat, >> 2019/02/16 11:19: >>> Below is a list of python2 modules that are a dependency for any other >>> package. I did not check makedepends and I did not check recursively to >>> build this list. >> >> The list contains optional dependencies. How to handle these? > > I see no conceptual difference between optional dependencies and hard > dependencies. Both are equally deserving of being in the repos for the > sake of providing dependent functionality to other packages. >
Yes - this was a quick pass list. There is probably a bunch that should not be removed and a lot more that could be removed... A