Re: Why do we need Python sub-modules?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 07:15:26PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Adam <adam%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > In couple of days I would like to change all Pythons to include
> > missing modules: curses, curses_panel, elementtree, sqlite3, pyexpact,
> > readline, spwd, Again, Python modules do not list them as dependencies
> > (why would they?), but assume they exist, so it is hard to properly
> > package Python with the current setup.

A simple grep will show them in almost all cases. As would running
actual tests when updating things...

> >
> > I will remove module packages (py-readline, py-curses, ...) and bump
> > revision for packages that depend on them.
> 
> The really big question is why we split this off, if those reasons still
> hold, and what the alternative approaches are.

Half of those modules require external dependencies. Some of those are
non-trivial in size. I'm really not in favor of this change at all.

Joerg