Bug 398961 – net-im/pidgin-2.10.1: please separate dbus-python dependency into a USE-flag

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Maxim Kammerer 2012-01-15 11:42:23 UTC]

# purple-url-handler and purple-remote require dbus-python thus in reality we
# rdepend on python if dbus enabled. But it is possible to separate this dep.

This would be great for building Pidgin without Python dependencies.

# dbus requires python to generate C code for dbus bindings (thus DEPEND only).
# finch uses libgnt that links with libpython - {R,}DEPEND. But still there is
# no way to build dbus and avoid libgnt linkage with python. If you want this
# send patch upstream.

I don't see any other Python dependencies in pidgin or dbus. Don't see libgnt* anywhere either.

net-im/pidgin-2.10.1 was built with the following:
USE="dbus gnutls groupwise gtk idn networkmanager nls sasl silc spell -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gstreamer -meanwhile -ncurses -perl -prediction -python -tcl -tk -xscreensaver -zephyr -zeroconf"

[Comment 1 Maxim Kammerer 2013-01-01 23:11:04 UTC]

Ping?

[Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2013-06-20 13:38:07 UTC]

Can you please attach a patch showing the necessary changes?

[Comment 3 Marco Scardovi (scardracs) 2023-01-12 20:30:23 UTC]

Is this still valid after 11 years?

[Comment 4 Andreas Sturmlechner 2024-11-20 07:37:04 UTC]

(In reply to Marco Scardovi (scardracs) from comment #3)
> Is this still valid after 11 years?
probably not?