Currently internet connection is not available during the building of a package. I propose to change this (at least) for optional packages. The benefit of this is that we need *not* add all the dependencies as sage pkgs, as it the case now. If there are no important drawbacks to this policy change, I would even suggest allowing internet connection for all pkgs, and clearing the sage pkgs folder of any dependencies.
For example, the addition of the package *ccache *requires the addition of its dependencies *hiredis*, *xxhash*, and *zstd*. This requires more work and maintenance and dilutes the content of pkgs with many dependencies. See the relevant PR: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/39226 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/52b437f7-d1a9-4ead-b88e-2b7f218de51dn%40googlegroups.com.
