Julio Biason wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote: >> In my opinion, most users won't need tkinter and thus do not need to >> install tk. As you can see from above, this is what pulls the most >> dependencies in. So what about removing only tk from the default python >> builds to maintain less dependencies, but offer more features by default? > > As a Python user of MacPorts, I'd prefer that those were variants. > > sudo port install python26 +ssl +tk +...
Which would mean you would have to rebuild the whole python port unnecessarily just to add another module. Also, with reference to #126 [1] it would be impossible for other ports to depend on certain features of python. Rainer [1] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/126 PS: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MailingLists#intro.reply _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
