Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/glib2

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:14:03AM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> Module Name:  pkgsrc
> Committed By: roy
> Date:         Tue Apr 19 06:14:02 UTC 2011
> 
> Modified Files:
>       pkgsrc/devel/glib2: Makefile
> 
> Log Message:
> gtester-report requires python.

Well...

I've seen the other discussion about "developer laziness", but I don't
buy into it that much.  This now means that every glib2 installation
requires that we have python installed, for one glib2 function called
"gtester-report". glib2 is a common pre-req, and maybe even for smaller,
embedded class machines, and I'm not sure a python interpreter is
wanted, needed, desirable or useful on such a machine.

Where do we draw the line? What pre-reqs should we require for a
package just because we can?

Regards,
Alistair