Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:46:20 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Hye-Shik Chang <perky@i18n.org> Cc: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Subject: Re: A question about dependencies Message-ID: <1088527580.825.19.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20040629164141.GA86948@i18n.org> References: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net> <20040629081435.GA4372@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200406291817.09503.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20040629164141.GA86948@i18n.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:41, Hye-Shik Chang wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:17:09PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:14, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:43:02PM -0600, Bob Melson wrote: > > > > Briefly, I discovered on my system some 124 ports of 600+ that show > > > > python as a requirement. Granted that many are probably cascading > > > > requirements: A requires B which requires C which requires python, so A > > > > and B are shown to depend on it; this still seems to me to be a problem. > > > > > > Actually, there are just two ports that directly depend on python, and > > > through which the majority of those other ports you mention inherit > > > their python dependence. Those ports are: > > > > > > textproc/libxml2 > > > textproc/libxslt > > > > > > both of which are important parts of the Gnome environment. > > > > > > If you don't want python installed on your system, then there's a > > > simple solution. Set 'WITHOUT_PYTHON=yes' in /etc/make.conf and > > > reinstall all of the ports that depend from those two. > > > > In the special case of python, I would agree that there are unnecessary > > dependencies recorded - it seems libxml and libxslt do not have a runtime > > dependency on python, just a buildtime dependency to build python bindings. > > However, USE_PYTHON can either record both run & buildtime dependencies none > > - perhaps another knob is needed here. Comments? > > > > Without runtime depencency, they will need some treatments to remove > python site packages directory ($PREFIX/lib/python2.3/site-packages). > I see that splitting python ports out from libxml2 and libxslt port > would be better than that. Speak for yourself. That would mean maintaining two new ports, and doing a big shuffle with ports that already assume the default packages for libxml2 and libxslt with have Python support. Joe > > > Hye-Shik -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA4Zzcb2iPiv4Uz4cRApBTAJ48jaGKV7TQBFYpJICQjU6cUVf9EwCdFlgA 8eXErRpUSJOeyES6ZM0EPYg= =drsS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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