Greetings All,
I've been working on an ancient bug [1] requesting a split of the
gnome-python, gnome-python-extras, and gnome-python-desktop ebuilds.
The motivation behind the split is that packages that depend on a
single module or a small set of modules from one of these packages end
up pulling in the numerous dependencies required when pulling all the
modules in the package (example -- nautilus gets pulled in because of
a dep on the gnomeprint module).

I have split these 3 packages into packages for the component modules.
Since there was a lot of common functionality between these packages,
and the 28 modules' ebuilds were basically very similar, I've split
out a large amount of the required functionality into an eclass. The
work is heavily based on Jim Ramsay's (lack@g.o) work on splitting
gnome-python-desktop.

The split ebuilds are available via a git repository [2]. The actual
eclass can be viewed online at:

http://tinyurl.com/6z2ltc (full URL [3])

Feedback and comments (and even brickbats ;)) on the eclass are invited.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108479
[2] http://gitorious.org/projects/g-py-split/repos/mainline (branch is
g-py-split)
[3] http://gitorious.org/projects/g-py-split/repos/mainline/blobs/g-py-split/eclass/gnome-python-common.eclass

Cheers!
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