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List:       freebsd-current
Subject:    Re: -CURRENT compilation time
From:       David Chisnall <theraven () FreeBSD ! org>
Date:       2021-09-09 9:31:03
Message-ID: 4b5b1ae0-9fa3-ad80-9bd0-9802270e104b () FreeBSD ! org
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On 09/09/2021 00:04, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> devel/ninja/Makefile has USES= python in it, so it maybe require python
> to run or at least build.

You could probably remove that line without anyone noticing.  Ninja uses 
Python for precisely one thing (or, at least, did last time I looked):

There is a debugging mode that will generate a visualisation of all of 
the dependencies in the project and run a web server that allows you to 
view this visualisation in your web browser.

In about 10 years of using Ninja, I have used this functionality 
precisely once, and that was immediately after poking the code to find 
out why it had a Python dependency, discovering this mode existed, and 
looking to see what it did.

Nothing on the build paths depends on Python and Ninja doesn't require 
Python to build itself.

David


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