[Crossposting to matplotlib devel list] Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:22, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >> Here's the problem: for Ubuntu, we've had to disable the building of >> the numpy documentation package, because its dependencies violate >> Ubuntu policy. Numpy is in our "main" archive but the documentation >> depends on python-matplotlib, which lives in our "universe" >> archive. Such cross archive dependencies break the build. >> >> We can't put python-matplotlib in main because of *its* dependencies. > > As a digression, I think the python-matplotlib dependencies could be > significantly reduced. For a number of use cases (this is one of them, > but there are others), you don't need any GUI backend. Independent of > this issue, it would be great to be able to install python-matplotlib > in a headless server environment without pulling in all of those GUI > bits. Looking at the list of the hard dependencies, I don't understand > why half of them are there. > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/python/python-matplotlib Would it make sense to split out each interactive backend to its own Ubuntu package, e.g. python-matplotlib-tk, etc? Each of these would depend on the relevant toolkit packages, and python-matplotlib would have a much shorter list of dependencies. -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
