A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> So, please consider this a plea to give users like me a way to just
> install the software we actually want and rely as much as possible on what
> is already there and working quite-well-enough-thank-you on the system.

If the packages available on the system aren't all the same architecture
(and they're not) then you can't put them together and build software.