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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:52:59 -0700
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Subject: Re: Analyze dependencies of a cygwin package
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From: Mark Geisert via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On 6/20/2024 11:21 PM, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello to everyone,
> 
> yesterday I've uploaded a new cmus package, with some optional features 
> enabled.
> 
> Today, through setup.exe, I noticed that now cmus brings clang as 
> dependency.
> 
> Is there something I can use for analyzing transitive dependencies of a 
> package?
> It does not make sense for an audio player to bring a compiler as 
> dependency, and would like to remove the offending dependency.

Try the cygcheck-dep tool, downloadable through setup.exe. It was 
created to answer questions just like this. Recommended :-).

..mark


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