[103128] trunk/dports/python/py-html2text/Portfile

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-2-16 09:52 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 15, 2013, at 15:03, sean at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 103128
>>>         https://trac.macports.org/changeset/103128
>>> Author:   sean at macports.org
>>> Date:     2013-02-15 13:03:59 -0800 (Fri, 15 Feb 2013)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> py-html2text: add missing py-distribute dependency; fixes #37964
>>>
>>> Modified Paths:
>>> --------------
>>>   trunk/dports/python/py-html2text/Portfile
>>
>>> +    depends_lib-append  port:py${python.version}-distribute
>>
>> Is it really a library dependency? Isn't distribute usually only used at build time?
> 
> Some programs use the pkg_resources module at runtime and flip out if distribute is removed after install. According to egall[1], py-html2text does so.
> 
>     [1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/37964#comment:3

We've been over this in the general case before:

<https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2013-January/021451.html>

It's probably not very productive to question every runtime dep on
distribute without knowing that it's actually unnecessary.

- Josh