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

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 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.

I agree with you. So I'll see how far I'll get with adding setuptools.
This should have no impact at the current patch for now.

Yegor