Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Max, > > Am Freitag, 25. Juni 2004 um 15:58 schriebst du: > >> libxml2 is marked as depending on python. > >> However, it is perfectly possible to use the libxml2 dll from C code >> without python. > >> Yes, the libxml2 package does also include some python stuff, but >> it shouldn't force python to be installed. > > We should have a global rule for those issues. It would be perfect > if I could remove those kind of dependencies, e.g. it would be > possible to include plugins for programs that are not available via > the cygwin mirrors, i.e. I think of perl modules like e.g DBD::MySql > or DBD::Oracle (which would be nice to have).
I don't understand what you are talking about? I'm not talking about any dependencies not on the cygwin mirrors - all I'm saying is that libxml2 does not depend on python, but currently lists python in its "requires:" line, which should therefore be removed. Max.
