At 8:31 Uhr -0700 09.05.2002, Ben Hines wrote:
>At 11:09 AM -0400 5/9/02, Koen van der Drift wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am using anacron, and recently one of the packages that it
>>depends on (indirectly, through daemonic) is libxml2. The newest
>>libxml2 in unstable now also depends on python. Is it really
>>necessary that I need all the extra packages for anacron? Python et
>>al already uses over 100 MB when installed. Maybe daemonic can
>>depend on a 'stripped' version of libxml2?
>
>
>Ouch, anacron + daemonic are base packages too, so that makes
>libxml2, python, and all their dependencies "base packages". (at
>least, if you are building from the source distro)
Neither anacron nor daemonic are so-called "essential" packages -
this is a special term used for package that always have to be
installed and can't be removed (like fink, dpkg, gettext,
ncurses...). So strictly spoken, you don't have to install these,
even if you build from source.
However, I do agree that it's not so nice to have to install python
in the end for these two packages!
I can either just disable the python support in libxml2 ("support"
means some .py/.pyc files that allow python users to access libxml &
libxslt), I am not sure it works properly anyway. The advantage would
be that no python was required at all. Or I just move the Python
stuff into a splitoff, libxml2-python. This means we retain the
python support, alas you would have to install python, at least
temporarily while building libxml2, though you could remove it once
libxml2 was built.
Does anybody think the libxml2 python support is any good?
Cheers,
Max
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