From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: Re: [RFH] rpm packaging failure Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:06:52 +0100 Message-ID: <201001310106.52303.johan@herland.net> References: <7v8wbgueqz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100130151921.GM29188@inocybe.localdomain> <7vsk9nsemh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Todd Zullinger , git@vger.kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 31 01:07:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbNLB-0003Rq-LG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:07:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752988Ab0AaAG4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:06:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752797Ab0AaAG4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:06:56 -0500 Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([84.208.15.66]:52534 "EHLO get-mta-out02.get.basefarm.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751509Ab0AaAG4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:06:56 -0500 Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([10.5.16.4]) by get-mta-out02.get.basefarm.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-0.04 64bit (built Jun 20 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KX3001HS4BH5S20@get-mta-out02.get.basefarm.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:06:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from alpha.localnet ([84.215.68.234]) by get-mta-in01.get.basefarm.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-0.04 64bit (built Jun 20 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KX300HFH4BG0C20@get-mta-in01.get.basefarm.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:06:53 +0100 (MET) X-PMX-Version: 5.5.3.366731, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.0.366912, Antispam-Data: 2010.1.30.235725 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-ARCH; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) In-reply-to: <7vsk9nsemh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Saturday 30 January 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The files that are problematic are only infrastructure bits to support > "remote helpers written in Python" (which we don't ship at all yet). > > Once we start shipping real remote helpers, separating Python bits out > into its own package would make a lot of sense. People who want to use > foreign scm helpers that happen to be written in Python would need it, > and all others don't. > > But I suspect that a safer alternative at least for 1.7.0 would be to > leave these files out altogether. As I understand the current state, it > is an unused but required package dependency on Python, a downside > without an upside. Is it Ok with "remote helpers in Python" folks (I > think Sverre and Johan are principal parties), or did I miss some reason > that these need to be installed/installable, perhaps to support third > party packages that already exist? AFAICS, there's no reason why these should be installed without anything actually using them. Although I defer to Sverre, who did the last work in this area. ...Johan