Re: [gentoo-dev] gnome-python/pygtk and "import gnome"

[foser <foser@sesmar.eu.org>]

Derek Greentree wrote:
> Hi all,
>   Basically, I'm trying to run and hack a python script that says things
> like 
> "from gnome import *"
>   Now, there are 2 packages in portage, gnome-python and pygtk. They
> seem to provide the same stuff in terms of the files they install:
> what's the difference between these 2 packages. However, the big problem
> is that even with either (or both) installed the said python script
> doesn't work; I get this error:
> 
> from gnome import *   
> ImportError: No module named gnome
> 
> So,
>   1. Are these two packages, gnome-python and pygtk, really different?
>   2. What can I emerge (or what do I need to make an ebuild for) so that
> a python script can do an "import gnome"?
> 

Hi,

i ran into this odd couple as well. It seems gnome-python provides 
everything pygtk provides (altough i didn't have a good look), but since 
there might be apps that use only pygtk stuff and don't need all the 
dependencies that come with gnome-python (all sorts of gnome stuff) it 
is logical to provide them both (altough portage wasn't mean for this 
sort of situations afaik).

Now, the only problems i ran into was with the Gnome2 pygtk ebuild 
(1.99), with the old one (0.6.8) everything should be fine. The 1.99 
version overwrites part of the old gnome-python package resulting in 
some weird problems. You might try uninstalling it all and then just 
installing gnome-python and maybe (if needed after all) the gnome1 pygtk 
build (0.6.8).

- fos