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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/setuptools as RDEPEND
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:28:16
Message-Id: 20080624092814.GE4714@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/setuptools as RDEPEND by Rob Cakebread
1 On 23-06-2008 15:21:31 -0700, Rob Cakebread wrote:
2 > Just a quick note here in case you work on Python packages.
3 > Recently repoman started warning that setuptools may be suspicious as an
4 > RDEPEND.
5 >
6 > A lot of Python packages use another namespace that setuptools provides,
7 > 'pkg_resources', for plugin systems so it may not appear obvious that
8 > setuptools is an RDEPEND.
9 >
10 > I've updated the Python Developer's Guide[1] with info on how you can
11 > easily determine if it's an RDEPEND or not.
12
13 Why not remove the check from repoman, if it is a false positive in many
14 cases?
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17 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml
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21 Fabian Groffen
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