"Lite" vs. "Full" Python Ports

[Rainer Müller]

Julio Biason wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
>> In my opinion, most users won't need tkinter and thus do not need to
>> install tk. As you can see from above, this is what pulls the most
>> dependencies in. So what about removing only tk from the default python
>> builds to maintain less dependencies, but offer more features by default?
> 
> As a Python user of MacPorts, I'd prefer that those were variants.
> 
> sudo port install python26 +ssl +tk +...

Which would mean you would have to rebuild the whole python port
unnecessarily just to add another module.
Also, with reference to #126 [1] it would be impossible for other ports
to depend on certain features of python.

Rainer

[1] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/126

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