Orphaning PycURL

[Seth Vidal]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2013, 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. :)
>


See Pierre's msg following this - the issue is what it bundles.

But the yum devs can make a decision on what they want to do with 
urlgrabber. Not sure what dnf is using at the moment.

-sv