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

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

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

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

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Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Reported:	2012-01-15 11:42 UTC by Maxim Kammerer
Modified:	2023-01-12 20:30 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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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) gentoo-dev

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?