Matthew Burgess wrote:
> On 27/09/2011 18:09, Andrew Benton wrote:
>
>> It seems that glib-2.30.0 requires libffi and python.
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I'm not actually that bothered by those 2
> dependencies. libffi has no dependencies itself, and Python has no
> mandatory dependencies, so it's only 2 packages that need to be added.
> And let's admit it, Python is pretty much unavoidable these days anyway.
>
> I'm not sure whether we want to do this upgrade prior to LFS-7.0 or not,
> but seeing as there's a bunch of upgrades pending anyway, I guess we
> could squeeze it in. I'll wait for Bruce to chip in though, as I know
> he's conscious of the gradual package creep.
Yes, we're getting bloat inserted by upstream:
Pkg-config
-> Glib
-> PCRE
-> libffi
-> python
All for a program that is 3500 lines of code. :(
Can Glib-2.30 be built without libffi/python?
-- Bruce
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