dev-python/setuptools as RDEPEND
On 23-06-2008 15:21:31 -0700, Rob Cakebread wrote:
> Just a quick note here in case you work on Python packages.
> Recently repoman started warning that setuptools may be suspicious as an
> RDEPEND.
>
> A lot of Python packages use another namespace that setuptools provides,
> 'pkg_resources', for plugin systems so it may not appear obvious that
> setuptools is an RDEPEND.
>
> I've updated the Python Developer's Guide[1] with info on how you can
> easily determine if it's an RDEPEND or not.
Why not remove the check from repoman, if it is a false positive in many
cases?
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml
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