From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] gnu: Add python-argparse. Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:26:13 +0100 Message-ID: <874m0x908a.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20170117141141.11694-1-rekado@elephly.net> <20170117141141.11694-2-rekado@elephly.net> <587E2EF6.6000106@crazy-compilers.com> 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]:37356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTVeU-0007t7-4S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:26:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTVeP-0003nx-7S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:26:26 -0500 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:21119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTVeO-0003nV-VK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:26:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <587E2EF6.6000106@crazy-compilers.com> 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" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hartmut Goebel writes: > Am 17.01.2017 um 15:11 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: >> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-argparse, python2-argparse): New > > As of Python >= 2.7 and >= 3.2, the argparse module is maintained within > the Python standard library. Why do we need a this package? Turns out we don’t! It used to be required by ribodiff, but that builds fine without it (and my patch doesn’t include it). So this should indeed be dropped. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net