From: Alex Turbov <i.zaufi@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Should Sphinx really depends on PYTHON_COMPAT/PYTHON_USEDEP for `dev-python/*` ebuilds?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:47:24 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANktQtuZSzxceyjPxJd2eb2GVovP_V8_ZzF-W8RoyM0y_eBBLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi Gentoo devs,
I'd like to discuss one thing I've concernted for a long time already.
Recently I've done some `dev-python` ebuild. And as most Python packages
it also uses `dev-python/sphinx` to produce documentation. I want to note
that my primary (and default) Python version is 3.5 and I have some 2.7
packages
(ebuilds) only because they required by something else (really important to
me).
or when it is dependency of some other Python2-only package.
Unfortunately most of `dev-python/*` packages, to produce docs from RST
files,
have `DEPEND` on `dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]`! However, being a
standalone application (just processing a bunch of RST files to HTMLs),
`/usr/bin/sphinx-build` **do not** actually depeds on `PYTHON_COMPAT` of
the ebuild it used inside! It just needs some/any interpreter it (Sphinx)
was "build" with!
So, nowadays Gentoo has some reeally weired IMO behaviour: to build docs for
some package from `dev-python/*` with `PYTHON_TARGETS` set to (for example)
2.7 and
3.5 Python versions, I have to build Sphinx also **for all enabled Python
versions**
of that package, meanwhile **only one** is needed (and really used)! This
is my
real concern: why I have to waste my disk+time to build `dev-python/*`
packages
with `PYTHON_TARGETS` I'll never use? Some of that packages are actually
dependencies
of other Python2-only packages. In other words, to build docs using Python
**3**
version/build of Sphinx, which is work pretty fine already, for Python2
enabled package,
I have to install a lot of Python-2 packages, dependencies of Sphinx to be
built w/ Python 2,
and enable `python2_7` for packages I've already have as Python3-only,
which in turn could
bring even more strange dependencies into scope.
Thus generally specking, Sphinx dependencies have no relations to `DEPEND`
of particular
`dev-python/*` ebuilds! So, in simple case there is should be enough to
specify
DEPEND=( doc? ( dev-python/sphinx ) )
for that ebuilds. In some rare cases (like
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618162)
Sphinx could use some extensions (plugins) and they also have no any
relation to `PYTHON_COMPAT`
of particular `dev-python/*` ebuild! That plugins to work need just the
same `PYTHON_TARGETS`
as used to build Sphinx. Unfortunately I can't find appropriate helper
function(s) in any
currently present Python reelated eclasses (or am I miss smth?), so I used
the following
dependency spec:
DEPEND=( doc?
|| (
(
dev-python/sphinx[python_targets_python2_7]
# NOTE This packages provide extensions for Sphinx
dev-python/rst-linker[python_targets_python2_7]
dev-python/jaraco-packaging[python_targets_python2_7]
)
(
dev-python/sphinx[python_targets_python3_5]
dev-python/rst-linker[python_targets_python3_5]
dev-python/jaraco-packaging[python_targets_python3_5]
)
(
dev-python/sphinx[python_targets_python3_6]
dev-python/rst-linker[python_targets_python3_6]
dev-python/jaraco-packaging[python_targets_python3_6]
)
)
)
So, my questions are:
0. am I missed smth? (and there are some other cases, I don't know about)
1. am I missed smth? (and there are some helper functions exist in eclasses
to expess that kind
of dependencies)
2. I think it would be nice to have some support for Sphinx in eclasses to
simplify ebuilds writing
(if #1 is false)
Ideas/comments/opinions are really welcome...
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next reply other threads:[~2017-05-11 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-11 4:47 Alex Turbov [this message]
2017-05-11 7:51 ` [gentoo-dev] Should Sphinx really depends on PYTHON_COMPAT/PYTHON_USEDEP for `dev-python/*` ebuilds? Michał Górny
2017-05-12 6:20 ` Alex Turbov
2017-05-12 17:18 ` Michał Górny
2017-05-13 0:42 ` Daniel Campbell
2017-05-13 1:28 ` Dale
2017-05-13 7:32 ` Michał Górny
2017-05-18 4:44 ` Daniel Campbell
2017-05-18 5:10 ` Michał Górny
2017-05-18 6:23 ` Alex Turbov
2017-05-18 6:46 ` Michał Górny
2017-05-12 18:32 ` Michał Górny
2017-05-18 22:07 ` Daniel Campbell
2017-05-18 22:30 ` Michał Górny
2017-05-19 1:18 ` Daniel Campbell
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