According to http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html#downloading, configobj does not have any external dependencies. It should not depend on setuptools. I emerged config object without setuptools, it appears to work just fine. Here's a diff: --- /usr/portage/dev-python/configobj/configobj-4.4.0-r1.ebuild 2007-07-05 16:36:15.000000000 -0400 +++ configobj-4.4.0-r1.ebuild 2007-10-31 09:40:00.000000000 -0400 @@ -15,14 +15,12 @@ SLOT="0" IUSE="doc" -DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools - app-arch/unzip" +DEPEND="app-arch/unzip" RDEPEND="" src_unpack() { unpack ${A} cd ${S} - sed -i -e 's/distutils.core/setuptools/' setup.py || die 'sed failed' } src_test() { Reproducible: Always
This was done intentionally, read the changelog before reporting bugs, please.