Package 'unit' requires python39 & requests (was Re: Latest version of mc requires python3)

Mon Feb 17 14:48:57 GMT 2025

On 17/02/2025 15:31, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote:
> On 17/02/2025 11:29, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote:
>> I just noted that the last version of mc (4.8.33-1) depends on python3.
>> I mentioned this a while ago but the 'units' package also has a 
> dependency on 'python39' and 'python39-requests'. This is purely because 
> of the currency updater script (/usr/bin/unit_cur) I believe.
>> I suspect that most people who want units want it for its physical unit 
> conversion functionality and the proportion using it for up-to-date 
> currency conversion is probably pretty small.
>> Considering this, might it be an idea to remove those dependencies?
>
side effect of our builing tool automatism.
Removing this type of dependencies is a manual additional operation.
We should modify cyygport to allow some dependecies to be excluded.
Time to look on it.
Regards
Marco