From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Python application with multiple new dependencies
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:58:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP43itC08Z7b=RqDPS++SF=sEM0S5xcD10XLjbQ5awOEXiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0lo92p6.fsf@ra.horus-it.com>
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 8:44 AM Ralph Seichter <gentoo@seichter.de> wrote:
>
> * Michał Górny:
>
> > I presume you want to proxy-maintain all of those packages.
>
> I would want to maintain the "monty" application because it offers
> functionality useful to me. I'm not particularly keen on maintaining
> Python ebuilds required as dependencies by only one application.
Speaking on behalf of the python team, we are not particularly keen on
maintaining libraries that are only used by a single package. We have
too many packages to care for already.
> Like everybody else, I have only a finite amount of time I can spend on
> Gentoo packages. I usually start with a separate venv for Python apps so
> I can "pip install ..." and make do without ebuilds.
This is actually the approach I would suggest for most applications.
Not everything needs to be handled in an ebuild; often it just
increases the amount of busy work you end up doing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-14 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-13 20:27 [gentoo-dev] New Python application with multiple new dependencies Ralph Seichter
2019-04-13 21:03 ` Michał Górny
2019-04-13 23:05 ` Brian Dolbec
2019-04-14 12:44 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-14 20:58 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2019-04-14 22:05 ` Ralph Seichter
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