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drobbins@g.o wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:07:39AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > Hmm, I always thought sys should contain everything that's required for |
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> > building itself and everything that's required for a minimum runtime system. |
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> > dev-lang/python includes tcl-tk support, sys-devel/python not otherwise we |
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> > must must xfree/tcl-tk to sys which is a bad idea. |
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> Hrm, I forgot about this problem since I compiled sys-devel/python on a system |
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> without tcl-tk or X. |
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> |
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> > ldd /usr/bin/python |
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> libreadline.so.4.1 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.1 (0x4001b000) |
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> libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40041000) |
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> libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4006e000) |
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> libdb-3.1.so => /usr/lib/libdb-3.1.so (0x400b2000) |
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> libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4012a000) |
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> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40138000) |
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> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4014d000) |
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> libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40150000) |
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> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40153000) |
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> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40171000) |
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> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) |
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> I know this may sound weird at first, but I'd rather disable X11 and tcl/tk |
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> support in sys-devel/python, and create a *third* python optional package -- |
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> python-x11. I don't want to force people to install Xfree86 and tcl/tk just |
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> so they can get a reasonably complete python implementation. This kind of |
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> thing would be a pain for people who are setting up a server without X at all, |
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> but need a complete python to run their scripts. |
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> Or, we can simply tell people that if you want X and tcl-tk support in your |
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> python, just remerge sys-devel/python after you have X and tcl-tk installed. |
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> the python configure program will detect that they're there, and link against |
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> the new libraries. Of course, then we need a transparent method for you so |
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> that when you're building packages, your sys-devel/python isn't linked against |
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> X and tcl-tk stuff and will work on a base system. |
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Do we get a problem if we change spython to resist in /usr and then merge over |
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libs |
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from dev-lang/python? |
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If not we can drop sys-devel/python and if someone needs python he can use |
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dev-lang/python |
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with or without tcl-tk/X support (use tcl-tk). |
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> -- |
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> Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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> President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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