Hi Jon, I just found on one of the python cygport's I took from Yaakov the usage of REQUIRES_EXCLUDE_FROM, but the documentation has nothing about it. I think will be useful to add some info on documentation before we waste time reinventing the wheel to remove "unwanted/optional" dependencies
$ grep -rH REQUIRES_EXCLUDE . ./lib/pkg_info.cygpart: for d in ${REQUIRES_EXCLUDE_FROM//:/ } it is used in the "__list_deps() " function ----------------------------------------------------- for d in ${REQUIRES_EXCLUDE_FROM//:/ } do deps_prune+=" -o -path ${d#/} -prune" done ----------------------------------------------------- Additional issue: the cygport package page https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/cygport-src.html is reporting www.cygwin.com as Homepage , but should not be https://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-apps/cygport.git ? It took some moments to find the repository Regards Marco