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From: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python Probs
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:18:12
Message-Id: 20010112121649.A556@kabbu.akopia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python Probs by drobbins@gentoo.org
1 On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:56:52AM -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote:
2 :
3 : I know this may sound weird at first, but I'd rather disable X11 and tcl/tk
4 : support in sys-devel/python, and create a *third* python optional package --
5 : python-x11. I don't want to force people to install Xfree86 and tcl/tk just
6
7 Actually, that makes sense. Otherwise, at some point we'll be building
8 larger and larger (perl|python|ruby|etc) installations with larger and
9 larger dependencies. Let's keep the really extraneous stuff that's not
10 in the base system under dev-(lang).
11
12 --Jerry
13
14 name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
15 phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
16 email: jerry@××××××.com || ...It's much more important
17 || than that!

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