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Re: Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual
On Aug 14 2018, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> On Aug 13 2018, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm impressed, you've done a really good job keeping this minimal, but what's
>> > the problem with including python here?
>>
>> We want to keep the cycle as small as possible. For example, even
>> though rpmlint is included in every build root and it is written in
>> python, it is not part of the bootstrap cycle because it is replaced by
>> a special package rpmlint-mini that contains copies of the python files
>> and dependencies from the rpmlint package. That shows how important it
>> is to keep python out of the equation.
>
> Given that you're already using special different packages in this
> bootstrap cycle, a special minimum python package is the obvious way to
> deal with uses in the glibc build.
That already exists, it is called python{3}-base.
Andreas.
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