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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34+1git.de9c1b7cfe-1
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> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>
> * binutils-2.34+1git.de9c1b7cfe
>
> This release should fix libtool shared library builds on 32bit Cygwin.

Below are the current "non Base" dependencies (and transitive dependencies) of
current "python3". As can be seen, "binutils" is now larger than all the other
dependencies combined.

Can we please, please address whatever exploded "binutils" size? Or perhaps once
and for all remove "binutils" as a dependency for "python3"? "binutils" is not
a runtime requirement for Python, only in the case where someone is utilizing
"ctypes", which one could argue is not a large enough percentage of users to
justify this.

25,016,180 binutils
     4,132 libcom_err2
    92,524 libcrypt2
    55,100 libexpat1
     3,964 libgdbm_compat4
    21,896 libgdbm6
   102,828 libgssapi_krb5_2
    73,344 libk5crypto3
   236,076 libkrb5_3
    14,424 libkrb5support0
    40,052 libnsl2
    19,432 libpkgconf3
   470,540 libsqlite3_0
    68,708 libtirpc3
     7,004 libtirpc-common
    16,848 libuuid-devel
    25,124 pkgconf
     5,972 pkg-config
       316 python3
 5,750,152 python36
 1,269,060 python-pip-wheel
   467,804 python-setuptools-wheel
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