"Lite" vs. "Full" Python Ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 11, 2009, at 15:15, Julio Biason wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I know. It just sounds a better way to get things into Python than
> trying to find some py25-module in the plethora of py25-modules that
> exist in MacPorts right now.
>
> But, then again, it's just my opinion.

They modules aren't that hard to find, are they?

$ port echo py25*ssl*
py25-openssl
py25-socket-ssl
$ port echo py25*tk*
py25-gtk
py25-gtkglext
py25-nltk
py25-pygtksourceview
py25-tkinter
$

I agree with Rainer, this is not what variants should be used for.