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Hello,

On Sat 28 Jan 2023 at 07:46PM +09, YOSHINO Yoshihito wrote:

> When I tried to install emacs-gtk or emacs-nox in bookworm, it pulls
> many development packages, especially binutils, libgcc-12-dev,
> libc6-dev and linux-libc-dev, which I would avoid to install if
> possible. They are pulled through libgccjit0, and probably used with
> the native compilation feature. It seems automatic native compilation
> can be inhibited run-time since 1:28.2+1-9. Is it possible to demote
> those dependencies to Recommends? (Probably I would also have to ask
> the libgccjit0 maintainer).

I agree that it is unfortunate that all this now gets pulled in.

I doubt that we will want to support both native-comp and
non-native-comp anytime soon, however, even without the freeze.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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