[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r25748 - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/top-level

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 02/02/2011 12:16 PM, Peter Simons wrote:

> The distinction between pythonBase and pythonFull is useful for bootstrapping
> purposes, because it allows a version of Python to be built that has very few
> dependencies. 

Have you seen this branch:

  https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/branches/modular-python/

It gets rid of the distinction between pythonBase and pythonFull entirely.  It
has a Python package with few dependencies, while those Python modules that
require external dependencies (sqlite, tcl/tk, etc.) are moved into separate
packages.

I didn't do that for Python 3 yet though.

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