On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:55:20AM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote:
> >> Personally, I don't see a reason why every person interested in using
> >> GIMP to be forced to install python. I suggested a few days ago on
> >> the list that python should be made to be a flavor for those who want
> >> to enable it with GIMP.
> >
> > We've talked about this here in budapest. It will not happen, gimp
> > will have python enabled. Adding a flavor for saving just a few
> > megabytes of disk space is overkill.
>
> Lovely.
Just to get this right: we don't dislike a no-python flavor because
we're assholes. We dislike it in this case because gimp takes pretty
much time to build and pulls in python (at runtime) regardless of
the flavor; adding a flavor means that a package build takes twice
the time for gimp.
If you're building all your stuff from ports, this doesn't matter,
but the whole point of the ports tree is to provide packages (with
the usual exceptions for some ports due to licensing issues), and
for bulk builds that provide you with ready-to-install packages,
build time *does* matter a little bit more than disk space.
Ciao,
Kili
