On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/29/2009 12:51 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> the sugar-pippy rpm in Fedora depends on pygame, which is used by some >>> of the examples. >>> >>> So far, so good, but pygame in turn depends on numpy, a 7.7MB package >>> which a lot of huge dependencies such as atlas (11MB), libgfortran >>> (1MB), blas (700KB) and python-nose (1MB). >>> >>> The rest of Sugar is now free of numpy, so it would be good if we could >>> get rid of it completely. One quick solution would be splitting the >>> problematic examples to a sugar-pippy-examples-extra package. >>> >>> Another possibility -- probably the cleanest -- would be splitting the >>> optional classes surfarray and sndarray to a subpackage of pygame. >> >> The numpy dep issue was discussed on fedora-devel a while ago and I >> thought they were going to split the specific bit of numpy that >> depended on atlas et al out into a separate package. I was of the >> understanding that this had already been done. >> > > I admit I'm not following sugar and numpy discussions too closely so I > might have missed it but I don't remember this. I do remember talking > about removing the numpy dependency from pygtk because it dragged in > atlas, et al and was only used by a single pygtk function. I remember that as well but at least with a quick repoquery (I might have got it wrong) it looks like the dependency is still there. Not sure what happened to the fix. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
