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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com>
To: "Charalampos Stratakis" <cstratak(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, eblake(a)redhat.com
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 8:50:31 PM
Subject: Re: Many packages unnecessarily link to libpython
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 02:12:00PM -0400, Charalampos Stratakis wrote:
> nbdkit rjones
I guess nbdkit is one of the good ones? We link to libpython because
we want to run Python code from a C main program (nbdkit, an NBD
server written in C).
http://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-python-plugin.3.html
http://libguestfs.org/nbdkit.1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device
Rich.
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By having a quick glance at plugins/python/python.c it seems that indeed nbdkit is
required to link to libpython.
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Charalampos Stratakis
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