ports/143578: [PATCH] devel/glib: remove dependency on Python

[Dmitry Marakasov]

The following reply was made to PR ports/143578; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru>
To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/143578: [PATCH] devel/glib: remove dependency on Python
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:06:20 +0300

 * Jeremy Messenger (mezz7 at cox.net) wrote:
 
 > See here:  
 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2008-June/020390.html
 > 
 > I haven't check in the tarball to see if it has changed.
 
 Having a (pretty weighty) dependency for a widely used library
 because of a script is unpractical. If there are consumers of that
 script (which I really doubt given that it's not even installed
 with +x and no one complained) they should define USE_PYTHON as
 needed instead.
 
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