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From: Rob Cakebread <pythonhead@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/setuptools as RDEPEND
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:21:54
Message-Id: 486021EB.4060507@gentoo.org
1 Just a quick note here in case you work on Python packages.
2 Recently repoman started warning that setuptools may be suspicious as an
3 RDEPEND.
4
5 A lot of Python packages use another namespace that setuptools provides,
6 'pkg_resources', for plugin systems so it may not appear obvious that
7 setuptools is an RDEPEND.
8
9 I've updated the Python Developer's Guide[1] with info on how you can
10 easily determine if it's an RDEPEND or not.
11
12 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml
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Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/setuptools as RDEPEND Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>