Quoting "Sandro Tosi" <mo...@debian.org>:
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? Is it
I'm sorry, but being able to use a GUI lib to show plots is on of the
core aspects of mpl, and I can already see bugs coming because one
doesn't install recommends and then mpl stops working.
If you absolutely do not trust our users to understand the Debian
packaging system :~), would you consider splitting matplotlib into a
"basic" package (e.g. "python-matplotlib-nox"), and the common one
("python-matplotlib") that depends on the first one and the GUI
toolkits?
That way users who just install python-matplotlib would still depend
on a GUI toolkit and the strange guys like me just use the "basic"
package. Other packages have the same split, see emacs22-nox,
gnuplot-nox, vim-nox, vlc-nox etc.
Would that be an option? If so, I would try to prepare a patch and
attach it here.
impossible that matplotlib works without python-excelerator? Why
moved to suggests
Thanks!
It's already in suggests and it's not installed by default: this is
the output in a clean chroot
OK, that was probably an error an my side.
Btw. and OT: For a server deployment with Django I'll need a Lenny
backport of matplotlib, w/o GUI toolkit :~), so don't be surprised if
I upload matplotlib >= 0.99.0-2 to bpo, as soon as it is in testing.
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