Re: [Duplicity-talk] Version 0.5.04 Released

[Michael Terry]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I have to agree on making all this optional! I've had to install the 
>> following to get the latest
>> Duplicity to compile on Gentoo:
>>
>> dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36
>> dev-util/intltool-0.37.1
>> dev-python/python-distutils-extra-1.91.2
>>
>> And this is all assuming that the end system will always have perl on it. I 
>> have a Gentoo LiveCD I
>> make that doesn't have Perl as I don't need it. I remove perl and all its 
>> files before creating
>> the ISO image and now I'll have to re-think this if I want to keep Duplicity 
>> on the CD :-(

The requirement on perl is for the xml-parsing of intltool, which in
autotools-based packaging, you can turn off.  Duplicity does not
require the xml parsing, so the packaging for your
python-distutils-extra must be pulling it in?  Does the ebuild not
support a USE flag to turn off XML parsing?

Ken, if you are worried about depending on python-distutils-extra (and
to avoid packaging issues that pull in dependencies like above), maybe
a way forward is to just include the python-distutils-extra code in
the tarball?  It's not very big --
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~glatzor/python-distutils-extra/main/files.

-mt