Thank you for the explanation Adam. Last question: How much more is the workload for maintaining a "splitted package"?
I understand I can contribute with patches but if it would increase the workload for the maintainers, then I think there's no point in doing it. Regards On 2017-06-13 17:22, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 05:59:45AM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 13/06/2017 02:13, mlists wrote: >>> Hi, >>> how can I install Git without binutils, cygrunsrv, python and OpenSSH >>> server? >>> >>> I want to work with remote repositories using clone/pull/push, built >>> would like to avoid having to install a ton of other things that won't >>> be used. >> cygrunsrv is part of the cygwin package. > This isn't true: cygrunserv is pulled in as an openssh dependency. > >> python is a dependency of git >> (due to /usr/libexec/git-core/git-p4) > I have a vague intention of separating out git-p4 into a separate > package, primarily so that the core git package doesn't need to require > python. However, I haven't got to that work for some time, and it's not > likely to make it up my priority list any time soon either. If you know > you're not going to use git-p4, you can manually skip the python > dependency selection. > > If you want to avoid having to deselect the python package using the > (admittedly awkward) setup-*.exe interface, I'd gratefully take patches > and pull requests for this work, either on this list or on the GitHub > repository: <https://github.com/me-and/Cygwin-Git>. > >> you don't need the openssh server but you need the client >> and they are in the same package. > Likewise, if you know you're not going to need the SSH client (which > will depend on how you're interacting with the remote repositories), you > can deselect it at installation time. > > Given (a) openssh is a small package even including all its dependencies > (totals about 750 kiB by my count) and (b) connecting via SSH is a > mainline use case for Git, I'm not going to change the Cygwin git > packages to skip this dependency. If you really want Git without SSH > support, you'll need to compile it from source yourself. > > You could try petitioning the OpenSSH maintainer, Corinna, to split the > package into openssh-client and openssh-server or similar, which would > reduce some of the dependencies, but for similar reasons I can't imagine > there's much appitite for that. > >> If you are programming you need binutils anyway. > Likely true. In any case, binutils is currently being pulled in via the > python package and git-p4, so as soon as I / someone does the work to > split git-p4 out into a separate package, binutils will stop being a > dependency of the core git package. > > Adam > (Your local friendly Cygwin Git maintainer) > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
