On 08/28/2013 09:57 PM, Robert Park wrote:
I'm not sure how we could possibly change this.
Point taken. It is not possible. Oh well.
The overrides file is not optional for python, I'm not sure why so many people packaging gexiv2 think that it can just be tucked into some optional secondary package and then not include it by default. It's kind of insulting, the way it takes my work and just sort of discards an enormously important piece of it, and then expects everything to continue working anyway. I mean, I guess I can appreciate not wanting a C/Vala library to have a dependency on python, but anybody using GExiv2 in python is going to want their own package to depend on the python support.
THAT is the only reason why there are libgexiv2-python* subpackages. Fedora has a long bad history with bindings pulling in dependencies we don't want to have pulled in. And of course, default way how most people get libgexiv2 package on their computer is as a dependency for Shotwell, so no Python is needed there at all. Best, Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/, Jabber: mcepl ceplovi cz GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC In political activity men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbor for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting point nor appointed destination. -- Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism in Politics
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