On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 03:00:50PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> skribis: > > > The 'wrap' phase of 'python-build-system' adds native-inputs to > > PYTHONPATH of the wrapped programs. This causes unnecessary runtime > > dependencies and may create problems when cross-compiling. > > > > Given that all python dependencies are now supposed to be propagated, > > perhaps we can simply remove the wrap phase? It only touches PYTHONPATH. > > We cannot simply remove it: it is meant for packages that provide > standalone programs, such as ‘certbot’. For these, it automatically > wraps bin/* and we don’t even have to have propagated inputs, which is > pretty cool. > > However, you are right that native inputs shouldn’t be there. Probably > we need to add some filtering in the ‘wrap’ phase?
While looking at the beets package definition with fresh eyes, I realize that it will surely break once this change is made. So it will make a good test case for this improvement :)
