Bug 323311 – python.eclass: Allow to define only build-time dependency on Python

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-06-09 09:59:00 UTC]

Looks like it's impossible to specify only build time dependence on python: both RDEPEND and DEPEND are specified. pidgin and x11-plugins/purple-plugin_pack need python as build time dependency only. Please, provide means either to disable python deps in eclass or to separate DEPEND/RDEPEND. Thanks in advance.

[Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2011-06-20 13:26:50 UTC]

Support for PYTHON_BDEPEND was recently implemented.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2012-01-23 23:59:56 UTC]

*** Bug 341037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2012-01-24 00:00:29 UTC]

and the diff for adding it to gentoo-x86 is where ?

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2012-01-24 01:33:54 UTC]

there's also the issue of python_set_active_version().  currently it only works inside of pkg_setup, but this doesn't really make sense considering the func only matters to compiling, so it should be restricted to src_* steps.  otherwise the eclass ends up aborting due to python not being installed when merging binpkgs.

[Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2012-01-31 22:09:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)

'python' can be called in pkg_setup(). Some functions (PYTHON(), python_get_*()) are also affected by python_set_active_version() and are sometimes called in pkg_setup().

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2012-01-31 23:57:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)

you're assuming python is available at pkg_* time.  that is a fundamentally invalid assumption.

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-12-13 16:03:41 UTC]

*** Bug 447052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Michał Górny 2013-03-02 14:12:25 UTC]

No new features will be added to python.eclass, so closing as WONTFIX.