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FS#58983 - [python2] libnsl dependency should be optional

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Leonid Isaev (lisaev) - Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 16:40 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Sunday, 13 September 2020, 15:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Currently, the package extra/python2 depends on libnsl (to support the NIS module [1]), but in fact the only binary in the entire package that links to libnsl.so.2 is /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/nis.so. Clearly, only a small fraction of systems having the python stack would ever interface with a NIS domain. Hence, is it possible to make libnsl an optdep? For example, "libnsl: for the NIS module".

Thanks!

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/nis.html
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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Sunday, 13 September 2020, 15:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 14 June 2018, 00:06 GMT
I'm not sure what the purpose of this change would be. It's a 200kb package with exactly one dependency and that is required by pam anyway. What do you save by breaking this admittedly uncommon module by default? :p

Aside: this applies equally to python 3...

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