From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: [patch] python-numpy, python-matplotlib and openblas update, python-cycler added Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 15:22:25 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTqhH-0002cW-QQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2016 09:22:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTqhG-0000dk-Mr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2016 09:22:27 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c08::235]:34693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTqhG-0000dR-HY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2016 09:22:26 -0400 Received: by mail-ua0-x235.google.com with SMTP id 35so90371002uap.1 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2016 06:22:26 -0700 (PDT) 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: pjotr.public12@thebird.nl Cc: Guix-devel Pjotr Prins writes: > Attached bumping of python-numpy, openblas and python-matplotlib. New > package python-cycler. > [...] > - matplotlib and ipython now have a circular dependency - so I removed > one and had to disable document generation for matplotlib We value documentation and welcome efforts to provide/keep it. An often working workaround for circular dependencies is to use bootstrap packages. One example is the circular dependency between python-numpy and python-matplotlib. The former need the latter to build its documentation, so we have an (unexported) python-numpy-bootstrap to work around that. Regards, Fede