Bugzilla Bug 201733

In order to use the Effect->Modify Path->Perspective menu option, inkscape
needs numpy installed.  Perhaps it should be included on the RDEP list?

thanks for the report, fixed in cvs.

Can we make this RDEP a USE flag option, please? I don't want to install
Fortran stuffs just to run Inkscape. Thanks!

fortran stuffs?

here's the emerge -ep output for numpy for me (please not the lack of fortran
stuffs):

[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc9  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r3  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.10-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20070724  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-libs/gmp-4.2.2  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-3-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/sed-4.1.5  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2  
[ebuild   R   ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.16  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-libs/popt-1.12  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-libs/expat-2.0.1  
[ebuild   R   ] app-admin/python-updater-0.3  
[ebuild   R   ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.11-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/readline-5.2_p7  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r4  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.61-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/help2man-1.36.4  
[ebuild   R   ] perl-core/Test-Harness-2.64  
[ebuild   R   ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.05  
[ebuild   R   ] perl-core/PodParser-1.35  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/automake-1.10  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/libtool-1.5.24  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.39  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/acl-2.2.45  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/man-1.6e-r3  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.70  
[ebuild   R   ] net-misc/rsync-3.0.0_pre6  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8g  
[ebuild   R   ] app-misc/ca-certificates-20070303-r1  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/python-2.5.1-r4  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-python/numpy-1.0.4  

(In reply to comment #3)
> fortran stuffs?
> 
> here's the emerge -ep output for numpy for me (please not the lack of fortran
> stuffs):
> [ebuild   R   ] dev-python/numpy-1.0.4  

stable numpy (1.0.3) depends on fortran. we could ask to stabilize a newer
version of numpy.

Discussed here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-629600-highlight-numpy.html

The dependencies shows in the compile step:

>>> Emerging (1 of 8) dev-python/numpy-1.0.3 to /
 * numpy-1.0.3.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                          
                                    [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                           
                                    [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                          
                                    [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                         
                                    [ ok ]
 * checking numpy-1.0.3.tar.gz ;-) ...                                         
                                    [ ok ]
 * None of the needed Fortran Compilers (gfortran g77) is installed.
 * To install one of these, choose one of the following steps:
 * [1] USE="fortran" emerge =sys-devel/gcc-4*
 * [2] USE="fortran" emerge =sys-devel/gcc-3*
 * 
 * ERROR: dev-python/numpy-1.0.3 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *        ebuild.sh, line 1717:  Called dyn_setup
 *        ebuild.sh, line  768:  Called qa_call 'pkg_setup'
 *        ebuild.sh, line   44:  Called pkg_setup
 *        ebuild.sh, line 1383:  Called fortran_pkg_setup
 *   fortran.eclass, line  181:  Called need_fortran 'gfortran' 'g77'
 *   fortran.eclass, line  109:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *              die "Install a Fortran Compiler !"
 *  The die message:
 *   Install a Fortran Compiler !
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/dev-python:numpy-1.0.3:20071213-221623.log'.

Cheers!

my bad, sorry.  I sometimes forget I'm not running stable.