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 -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
