[MacPorts] #26919: gnome-doc-utils installation fails

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#26919: gnome-doc-utils installation fails
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  Reporter:  ivan@…           |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  closed                               
  Priority:  Normal           |   Milestone:                                       
 Component:  ports            |     Version:  1.9.1                                
Resolution:  fixed            |    Keywords:                                       
      Port:  gnome-doc-utils  |  
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Comment(by ivan@…):

 Indeed; I don't think MacPorts is to blame here (although apparently I did
 raise a valid point about the library not being a build requirement -- or
 did I?).

 I had a very... particular situation. I had Python.org's Python2.5 for
 business needs, Apple's Python2.6 since it ships with MacOSX, and I wanted
 to install MacPorts software that was either a Python library, or depended
 on Python. I did some joggling with Python versions and that's what
 probably made the thing problematic.

 Bugs should probably be filed with Python 2.x packages on MacPorts, to
 make switching easy not just to Apple's Python, but also to Python.org's
 Python. The latter is needed since only that way one can build a binary
 for-distribution with py2app and ship Python at the same time. And
 shipping Python is needed since end users (casual gamers in this case)
 must never know that we're shipping Python, and numerous modules built for
 it (various Python-Ogre modules). All that publishers accept and all that
 players accept (that is, all that end users accept) is a single .app
 bundle that launches the game immediately upon double-clicking.

 Hence the need to have Python.org version of Python on one's machine.
 Hence the motivation to improve python_select to allow switching to other
 Python releases as well. These non-system releases are stored in
 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework and these do a bit of redirection
 themselves.

 However, I'm way off-topic here. All I tried to say is that I don't
 believe either myself nor MacPorts being at fault here. python_select
 might be improved, but that's not sufficiently relevant to this bug to
 require more discussion on my part.

 (PS Shame on me for not previewing my previous comment and therefore
 breaking all the text that should have been monospaced.)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/26919#comment:7>
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