Bug 402905

Summary:	x11-libs/gtk+:2 : please add a python USE flag for the converter script
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	lu_zero, lxnay, mk
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-09 18:04:15 UTC

As far as I can tell, there is only a single python script in Gtk+ for which the dependency is present. Can you please add an USE flag so that one can install gtk+ (on a ROOT offset) without bringing Python in? Thank you!

Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-09 18:45:45 UTC

It would require tracking down which versions of which packages use gtk-builder-convert at build time. Diego, you have a tinderbox, perhaps you could help with that ;)

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-09 19:40:18 UTC

Get me a masked ebuild with that USE flag, and next week I'll run the tinderbox to find what breaks with it disabled, deal? :)

Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-09 19:40:24 UTC

(I mean p.masked)

Comment 4 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-13 23:23:01 UTC

A full tinderbox run turned would have been overkill; all build-time users of gtk-builder-convert could be found just by grepping ebuilds and contents of $WORKDIR after src_prepare, which is something I could do on my own machine.

There turned out to be only three users in the tree - gnome-terminal, drwright, and klavaro.

Since gtk-builder-convert is a self-contained script useful in its own right, it was more natural to simply split it off into a separate ebuild (dev-util/gtk-builder-convert) than to try make it a flag-controlled part of gtk+.

gtk+-2.24.10-r1 is now python-free.

> *gtk+-2.24.10-r1 (13 Feb 2012)
>
>  13 Feb 2012; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
>  gtk+-2.24.5-r1.ebuild, gtk+-2.24.8-r1.ebuild, gtk+-2.24.9-r1.ebuild,
>  gtk+-2.24.10.ebuild, +gtk+-2.24.10-r1.ebuild:
>  Split dev-util/gtk-builder-convert out of gtk+-2.24.10-r1 to get rid of
>  python dependency (requested by Diego Elio Pettenò, bug #402905).

Comment 5 Maxim Kammerer 2012-02-14 07:15:39 UTC

A similar issue with gnome-base/libglade: bug #398955.

Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-14 11:17:08 UTC

I wouldn't have made it a USE flag of gtk, gtk does not need it and apps needing this script would not necessarily have to depend on a specific slot of gtk that way.