From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: pypi importer: Remove python-setuptools and hint on how to re-add it. Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:59:40 -0400 Message-ID: <20160816195940.GB20269@jasmine> References: <20160816181310.23954-1-dannym@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42819) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZkWi-0002Lp-Mu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:00:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZkWc-0008JS-74 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:59:55 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:32981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZkWb-0008JB-0e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:59:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160816181310.23954-1-dannym@scratchpost.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" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 08:13:10PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > gnu: pypi importer: Remove python-setuptools and hint on how to re-add it. I'm in favor of not automatically adding setuptools to packages created with the PyPi importer. For the packages that require setuptools, packagers can add it themselves. I reply to too many patches with "Please remove setuptools". I don't understand the importer well enough to comment on this particular patch.