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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:48:57 +0100
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Subject: Re: Package 'unit' requires python39 & requests (was Re: Latest
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On 17/02/2025 15:31, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote:
> On 17/02/2025 11:29, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote:
>> I just noted that the last version of mc (4.8.33-1) depends on python3.
> 
> I mentioned this a while ago but the 'units' package also has a 
> dependency on 'python39' and 'python39-requests'. This is purely because 
> of the currency updater script (/usr/bin/unit_cur) I believe.
> 
> I suspect that most people who want units want it for its physical unit 
> conversion functionality and the proportion using it for up-to-date 
> currency conversion is probably pretty small.
> 
> Considering this, might it be an idea to remove those dependencies?
> 

side effect of our builing tool automatism.
Removing this type of dependencies is a manual additional operation.

We should modify cyygport to allow some dependecies to be excluded.

Time to look on it.

Regards
Marco


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