Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:15:25PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Since the only thing in LFS that requires pkg-config is E2fsprogs, the >> easiest thing would be to patch the E2fsprogs build mechanism to remove >> the dependency on pkg-config and then remove PCRE, Glib, and Pkg

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:15:25PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Since the only thing in LFS that requires pkg-config is E2fsprogs, the > easiest thing would be to patch the E2fsprogs build mechanism to remove > the dependency on pkg-config and then remove PCRE, Glib, and Pkg-config > and defer

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:47:52PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On 27/09/2011 22:35, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > With respect, Matt, it's the glib2 part that is bloat. I remember > > some discussion, but I forget why we did it > > pkg-config upstream, as of 0.26, removed the internal Glib-1 that

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On 27/09/2011 22:35, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> With respect, Matt, it's the glib2 part that is bloat. I remember >> some discussion, but I forget why we did it > > pkg-config upstream, as of 0.26, removed the internal Glib-1 that it > used to bundle, therefore forcing us t

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/09/2011 22:35, Ken Moffat wrote: > With respect, Matt, it's the glib2 part that is bloat. I remember > some discussion, but I forget why we did it pkg-config upstream, as of 0.26, removed the internal Glib-1 that it used to bundle, therefore forcing us to install a system-wide copy and a

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 08:24:50PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On 27/09/2011 19:08, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > Yes, we're getting bloat inserted by upstream: > > Looking at the ChangeLog, the root dependency is "Add Pkg-Config as it's > a pre-requisite of E2fsprogs' new configure switches." H

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/09/2011 20:24, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On 27/09/2011 19:08, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Yes, we're getting bloat inserted by upstream: > > Looking at the ChangeLog, the root dependency is "Add Pkg-Config as it's > a pre-requisite of E2fsprogs' new configure switches." However, that > ChangeLog

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/09/2011 19:08, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Yes, we're getting bloat inserted by upstream: Looking at the ChangeLog, the root dependency is "Add Pkg-Config as it's a pre-requisite of E2fsprogs' new configure switches." However, that ChangeLog entry is within a whole bunch of Util-Linux changes,

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:08:10PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > > On 27/09/2011 18:09, Andrew Benton wrote: > > > >> It seems that glib-2.30.0 requires libffi and python. > > > > Thanks for the heads up. I'm not actually that bothered by those 2 > > dependencies. libffi

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On 27/09/2011 18:09, Andrew Benton wrote: > >> It seems that glib-2.30.0 requires libffi and python. > > Thanks for the heads up. I'm not actually that bothered by those 2 > dependencies. libffi has no dependencies itself, and Python has no > mandatory dependencies, s

Re: Glib-2.30.0

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 27/09/2011 18:09, Andrew Benton wrote: > It seems that glib-2.30.0 requires libffi and python. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not actually that bothered by those 2 dependencies. libffi has no dependencies itself, and Python has no mandatory dependencies, so it's only 2 packages that need to