Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
>> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:22:45 +0100
>> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
>>      Björn Lindqvist <bjourne@gmail.com>
>> 
>> Well, I was curious enough to look it up -- it's librsvg which has three
>> python scripts as part of it. Whether it actually uses them or not I
>> don't know. And, it is this that brings in lots of other things,
>> including, for example, bzip2.
>
> Maybe report that to the MSYS2 packagers.  It's IMO wrong to consider
> every package that comes with a few Python script not essential to its
> functionality to be dependent on Python.

Hmmm. Actually, it's indirect, via libglib2.

The dependency was added deliberately in this commit.

d394f202ab275d931f9408c68a4dc1fa95ad723c

viewable here:

https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/commit/d394f202ab275d931f9408c68a4dc1fa95ad723c#diff-4edc48d8f1e38f841d1aa74999389b6e

A priori, I am a bit surprised this is a runtime rather than build time
dependency, or possibly the dependency on python should be in
gobject-introspection only. Adding a python dependency to glib seems
quite a blunt solution. But my knowledge in this is limited to say the
least. What do think, Eli? Worth reporting?


Phil