On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:58 -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > Unfortunately, not at the moment. The core packages have too large a > granularity to avoid pulling in all the rest. In particular, the Python > package has GUI bits in it that pull in tcl/tk, which then pull in all the > core X packages.
Yeah, I was planning to split the main Python package into python-core and python-modules to avoid the excessive dependencies when they are not really needed. Didn't get around to doing it in this release cycle. (python-core would include libpython and /bin/python and all the modules that only depend on ON-ie libs) Laca
