On Friday, February 11, 2011, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > On Friday, February 11, 2011, Jouni K. Seppänen <j...@iki.fi> wrote: >> [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 >> > > There are a lot of advantages to this idea, and I wonder if it might > make distributions easier and allow fuller control by the user. In > particular, kubuntu could default to using the qt backend while > regular ubuntu could use gym.
stupid autocorrect... Gym -> Gtk Ben Root > > However, how practical is this to implement? What does it require > from us upstream? > > Ben Root > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
