python3 optional deps

Jeff Johnson n3npq at mac.com
Fri May 6 14:48:26 CEST 2016


On May 6, 2016, at 3:41 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

> On 06.05.2016 10:11, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
>> 
>> I guess the python dependency generator should be fixed in our RPM, to ignore the 'extras' dependencies (or to make them 'suggest', skipping the ':python_version' ones.
> is there python module to parse the egg info? or just manual parsing each time
> 
> btw, maybe it's better to extract the python dependency generators as separate package, out of rpm sourcetree?
> it would be a lot simplier to maintain, than patching patch patching the previous patch. our patches will likely never end up upstream.
> 

Submit any patches for rpm you wish.

Meanwhile, rpm cannot carry extractors for every possible dependency forever,
that simply does not scale.

73 de Jeff



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