py-enchant and wxPython Dependency

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 6/5/17 2:50 AM, Pete Wright wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have a webapp that is making use of textproc/py-enchant for
> spellchecking in some input forms we use.  when i install py-enchant via
> pip it only requires some libraries that ship with textproc/enchant. 
> yet when i install the py27-enchant pkg it looks like i have to slup in
> about 1GB of deps - including lots of X libraries (libGL for example). 
> This seems to be related to having "USE_WX" flag set in the
> textproc/py-enchant Makefile.
> 
> Since my use-case is for a python webapp I have no need for wxPython and
> it's dependency tree.  Is there an easy way to re-build this port w/o
> the wxPython dependency?  I can confirm the py-enchant works fine
> without wxPython when it is installed via pip inside a python venv.  My
> understanding is that the USE_* flags are not really meant to be
> user-settable.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -pete
> 

Hi Pete,


If WX is optional (for enchant) then it should be made an OPTION to at
least allow ports users to disable the dependency and its consequent
features, and if you're a package user, the ability to create a custom
package.

This should take place as a request in Bugzilla (with rationale, etc)
with a summary like:

textproc/py-enchant: Make WX OPTION'al

CC'ing port maintainer