On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:44:52AM -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > | On 24 January 2012 14:54, Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> wrote: > | > I think any platform that supports XDG is going to have python. > | > | It will; but I think it's best described the other way round -- that > | is, any platform that has python installed can use XDG -- and I say > | that only because of the availability of the python XDG bindings. > | Not that it really matters to me, but it is worth investigating if > | these bindings come with python or are external. I'm thinking about > | packaging. > > The bindings are an external package, not part of the core Python > distribution (on Fedora they are packaged as 'pyxdg', on Ubuntu > 'python-xdg'). On Fedora the package seem to be part of the default > installation if you have the Gnome desktop (Totem and IBus both depend > on the package). > > (I don't have any clean stock Ubuntu desktop machines to see if the > package is there in their Gnome setup. An Ubuntu server install with > basic X packages installed doesn't have them.)
Yes -- I really don't care about this point, it's a packaging problem. But it's perhaps a bigger change for some packagers because FVWM will now depend on both perl and python. But as to how that happens, I don't care. -- Thomas Adam
