Orphaning PycURL

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 04:47 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 03:17:57PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > it's not under my control anymore - but the idea of python-requests
> > and its deps pulled into @core does not fill me with joy.
> 
> Sooo.... 
> 
> $ rpm -qR python-requests|grep -v ^rpmlib\(
> ca-certificates
> python(abi) = 2.7
> 
> (And ca-certificates doesn't require anything.)
> 
> It's relatively big for a core package (couple of megabytes, give or take).
> And curl is required by a number of *other* things, and it's pretty nice to
> have such a utility in standard if not in core at least, so it's almost
> "free" as a base.
> 
> 
> > Does requests still have some local copy of other libs?
> 
> Apparently it doesn't pull them in from other packages. :)

There is work in progress to unbundle the libraries that requests
bundles, that will make it loose some weight but will increase the
dependency chain:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904623

Pierre