Re: [gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

2008-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:48:14 +0100, Alastair Irving wrote: > I've resolved this by installing the gnome-python-desktop package > manually from source. The configure script for it detects which > libraries are installed and only compiles the modules it can given > those libraries. Therefore, ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

2008-06-29 Thread Alastair Irving
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 07:25:07PM +0100, Alastair Irving wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:42:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 26 June 2008, Alastair Irving wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to run a program which requires the wnck python module, > > > which I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

2008-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Alastair Irving wrote: > as for what i'm trying to do, i was installing the latest version of > the orca screenreader from source, as I wanted a more up-to-date > version than that provided by portage. The portage version doesn't > depend on wnck but all more recent vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

2008-06-26 Thread Alastair Irving
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:42:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 26 June 2008, Alastair Irving wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > I'm trying to run a program which requires the wnck python module, > > which I believe is part of the gnome-python-desktop package. I like > > to keep my gnome deskt

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

2008-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Alastair Irving wrote: > Hi > > > I'm trying to run a program which requires the wnck python module, > which I believe is part of the gnome-python-desktop package. I like > to keep my gnome desktop minimal, but this package wants to install > the following: You're going

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Johnson
Well, the README in the source of this package says: This package contains a few python modules that used to live in > gnome-python-extras: > > - gnomeapplet > - gnomeprint, gnomeprint.ui > - gtksourceview > - wnck > - totem.plparser > - gtop > - nautilusburn > - mediaprofiles >

[gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

2008-06-26 Thread Alastair Irving
Hi I'm trying to run a program which requires the wnck python module, which I believe is part of the gnome-python-desktop package. I like to keep my gnome desktop minimal, but this package wants to install the following: $ emerge -vp gnome-python-desktop These are the packages that would be m