From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Changing python-wrapper to handle lib/ etc. Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 23:29:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20141104222939.GA30528@debian> References: <20141103101345.GA7788@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <20141103201928.GA20729@debian> <20141103204921.GA3867@debian> <20141103220646.GB28208@debian> <871tpjcnbt.fsf@gnu.org> <20141104130715.GA8411@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <878ujq29on.fsf@gnu.org> <20141104170830.GA17009@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <878ujq8x1d.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlmbq-0002C5-NQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:30:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlmbi-0007wH-0a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:29:54 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878ujq8x1d.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: Guix-devel , Federico Beffa On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:40:14PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > guix gc --references $(guix build libxcb) | grep python > shows nothing. So what about creating a bare-bones Python for that > (perhaps with other optional dependencies removed, while we’re at it), > and use that as a dependency for libxcb? There is indeed no trace of python scripts in the installed files, but it is used as a native input. I had hoped we might simply drop it, but it is required for building. So adding a minimal python sounds like an option. Or maybe just a clone of the current python (without tk), to minimise the development work... Andreas