I'd like to hear your comments about a change which may or may not make it into potato:
Currently "python" is an virtual package only, provided by python-base. I'd
like to turn "python" into a real package with the upcoming new revision of
the Python packages:
Package: python
Source: python
Depends: python-base, python-dev, python-gdbm, python-mpz, python-tk, idle,
python-zlib, python-examples
Suggests: python-doc, python-elisp
Description: An interpreted, interactive, OO language (full distribution)
This package installs the complete Python distribution as availble from
www.python.org, featuring e.g.
.
- Tkinter, a platform-indepedent GUI toolkit, based on Tk
- IDLE, a Python integrated development environment, written in Tkinter
- the environment for building Python extensions in C
.
If you don't need all of these, don't use this package, but only
python-base.
I.e. this package would install in all packages that are included in the
Python distribution, drawing in the necessary dependencies if not yet
installed (libgdbmg1, libgmp2, zlib1g, tcl8.0, tk8.2).
Therefore a newbie user can select "python" and will get a typical Python
installation. Experienced users can strip down the system by using
"python-base".
I'm not sure about python-tk and idle, though, since they depend on X11 at
last. As well arguable are the packages that are now in Suggests (elisp
depends on an emacsen), should I include python-doc in the Depends ?
Comments ?
Gregor
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