Re: py-setuptools as a DEPENDS?

[Frédéric Fauberteau <triaxx%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Le 2018-08-29 12:03, Adam a écrit :
> > According to devel/py-setuptools/DESCR, this tool aims at building and 
> > distributing python package.
> >
> > What about the following?
> > Index: egg.mk
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/lang/python/egg.mk,v
> > retrieving revision 1.27
> > diff -u -r1.27 egg.mk
> > --- egg.mk      8 Feb 2017 12:09:30 -0000       1.27
> > +++ egg.mk      29 Aug 2018 08:02:55 -0000
> > @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
> > ensurepip:
> >        ${SETENV} ${MAKE_ENV} ${PYTHONBIN} -m ensurepip --user
> > .else
> > -DEPENDS+=      
> > ${PYPKGPREFIX}-setuptools>=0.8:../../devel/py-setuptools
> > +BUILD_DEPENDS+=        
> > ${PYPKGPREFIX}-setuptools>=0.8:../../devel/py-setuptools
> > .endif
> >
> > INSTALLATION_DIRS+=    ${PYSITELIB}
>
> I thought about this (clever me ;)), but apparently some packages
> require setuptools to run.

o_O

> One need to go through the packages and figure out which ones.

No idea how to do that... Extract each ^py-* and grep something with 
setuptools in setup.py...?

> Or... just switch to BUILD_DEPENDS and amend later.

1) An idea about how many packages could be affected?
2) Could we override BUILD_DEPENDS by DEPENDS for packages that need 
py-setuptools as a running dependency?

> Kind regards,
> Adam

Fred