Bug 295978

Summary:	media-gfx/inkscape depends on redundant python xml api provider
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) <eva>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Graphics Project <graphics+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-06 15:44:16 UTC

Currently, inkscape depends on python, pyxml and lxml. From a quick search:
egrep "import" $(qlist inkscape | egrep "py$" |tr '\n' ' ') |egrep --color "xml"

it seems inkscape (0.46-r5 here) depends on:
 * lxml for etree which is also provided by pyxml and dev-lang/python[-build,xml]
 * pyxml for xml.dom.minidom which is apparently also provided by dev-lang/python[-build,xml]

Can we get a fixed inkscape with those dependencies  wrapped in a || () please ?

Comment 1 Markus Meier gentoo-dev

2009-12-07 11:19:36 UTC

dev-python/lxml is required for some extensions.
the dep on pyxml/python[xml] should be correct now. thx for the report Gilles.

Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-07 14:24:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> dev-python/lxml is required for some extensions.

yes, it is used for elementtree interface, it does not seem to use anything specific to lxml but I haven't checked that deeply.

> the dep on pyxml/python[xml] should be correct now.

thanks.