Python extraneous dependencies

[Steven Penny]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:58:12, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Nak.  ctypes is part of the Python standard library and therefore the
> dependency needs to be on the main package(s).
> 
> BTW, binutils is usually included by default in all but the most
> minimal base installs, so I'm not quite sure why you object so much to
> this requirement.

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-03/msg00589.html

Is it though? With both Debian and Ubuntu, binutils is a suggested package, not
a required one:

- https://packages.debian.org/stretch/python3.5
- https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python3.6


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