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Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add gnome-tweak-tool.


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add gnome-tweak-tool.
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:44:28 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 07:22:27PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Leo Famulari writes:
> 
> > I tried building with glib-or-gtk-build-system instead of
> > gnu-build-system. It still didn't work if python-2 was a mere input, but
> > I wonder if glib-or-gtk-build-system should be used, regardless?
> 
> The glib-or-gtk-build-system lists in two additions to the
> gnu-build-system.  I don't see gnome-tweak-tool needing any of those,
> do you?
> 
> Gnome-tweak-tool is written in python2: it won't run without it.  How
> could loosening the python2 dependency be helpful?

Ah, I didn't realize it was a Python program with an Autotools build
system.

I think we need to wrap gnome-tweak-tool's executable, which the
python-build-system normally does automatically. AIUI, that's why all of
the python-build-system packages don't require Python itself to be
propagated.



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