On 2009-09-19 21:42, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 20:36, W. Martin Borgert <deba...@debian.org> wrote: > > E.g. we use matplotlib in a web application, which is a common > > use case, so why would we need Tcl/Tk|GTK+|wxGTK|Qt3|Qt4? > > Sorry, this won't change. The vast majority of the users of mpl use it > interactively or with scripts displaying the output on screen.
So this is the perfect case for a Recommends. Policy says: "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations." Recommends are installed by default, so most users don't see any difference between Depends and Recommends. Please let at least the minority not install a GUI toolkit, if they don't need one. E.g. I think about packaging some plugins for Trac (a web based project managing tool), that depend on matplotlib. I also will package a software for the analysis of wind data (again web based), that depends on python-django and on matplotlib. In both cases installing a GUI toolkit is not necessary. So even if this is an "unusual" use case, there is no reason to not allow it. _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list Python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
