On 22/01/2019 15:42, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:
> On 22/01/2019 15:28, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:
>> On 22/01/2019 14:57, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On the libtasn1 page, the dependency on "six" has been added at revision 
>>>> 20311
>>>> (August 15th, 2018, by bdubbs)). But I do not see any reference to six 
>>>> (except
>>>> in the word posix) in the libtasn1 build tree, and I do not any reference 
>>>> to
>>>> python either.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect it is an oversight (rev 20311 is a big commit with several
>>>> lfs83_checked tags and two updates), but before removing this dependency, 
>>>> I'd
>>>> rather ask first if there is/was a reason to add it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Pierre
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>>> I keep a log of all my BLFS package installations, and I see no
>>> reference to "six" for libtasn1 either.  Another package that has "six"
>>> as a required dep is GTK+ 3.  I don't see any reference to "six" in that
>>> package either unless it has something to do with
>>> wayland/wayland-protocols (which I do not build for my GTK+-3).
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up. This has been added more than a year ago (revision
>> 19212, Sep 12th, 2017, by renodr), with an explicit commit message telling it
>> is required. But there has been a load of newer versions of GTK+3, so I guess
>> the dependency could have been removed since then. Note that in addition to
>> wayland, it may be a dependency on systemd. Note also that the doc for 3.24.3
>> does not mention any dependency on six nor on python.
>>
>> Pierre
>
> 
> I've been able to build and DESTDIR install both libtasn1 and GTK+3 (3.24.3)
> without six installed on the system. But I do not do systemd...
> 

Since nobody commented, I've removed those dependencies at revision 21020.

Pierre

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