----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> > To: "Charalampos Stratakis" <cstra...@redhat.com> > Cc: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>, ebl...@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. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch > http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html >
By having a quick glance at plugins/python/python.c it seems that indeed nbdkit is required to link to libpython. -- Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
