Re: Does glib really need python at runtime?

From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
Subject: Does glib really need python at runtime?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:57:42 +0000

> I installed a package that needs glib on a server and noticed that
> python was installed as glib depends on it
> 
> root@arthur:1# pkg info -d glib
> glib-2.74.1,2:
> 	libxml2-2.10.3_1
> 	python39-3.9.15       <-----
> 	pcre2-10.40
> 	libffi-3.4.3
> 	gettext-runtime-0.21
> 	libiconv-1.17
> 
> I can understand python being need for building glib, but as a run time
> dependency it's ridiculous, as well as exposing a massive attack
> surface. Does anyone know what's going on here?

glib-genmarshal and glib-mkenums are python script. So they require
python to run.

yasu@eastasia[3311]% file /usr/local/bin/glib-genmarshal /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
/usr/local/bin/glib-genmarshal: a /usr/bin/env /usr/local/bin/python3.11 script, ASCII text executable
/usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums:    a /usr/bin/env /usr/local/bin/python3.11 script, ASCII text executable
yasu@eastasia[3311]%

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Yasuhiro Kimura