[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/2] New package: python-dpkt

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:21:58 +0100,
Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1 at visionsystems.de> a écrit :

> What would speak against compiling host-python with zlib support? I
> think we'll need it for host-setuputils anyway. AFAIK python-dpkt
> seems to be neglected for quite a while. Though I submitted a bug
> report: http://code.google.com/p/dpkt/issues/detail?id=82, I don't
> think it will be accepted shortly. 
> 
> Should I prepare a patch for host-python with zlib support?

Adding zlib support in host-python just because dpkt includes itself in
its setup.py script is silly. If all packages do that, then we'll end
up adding cairo support in host-python, just because some Python module
relying on cairo includes itself in its setup.py script.

That said, if zlib support in host-python is needed for
host-setuputils, then it's a different story and zlib support can be
enabled in host-python. But I definitely don't want the host-python to
be cluttered with more and more things simply because some packages do
silly stuff in their setup.py.

Regards,

Thomas
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