What is db46 and why is it such a pain?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 7, 2011, at 20:47, Yves S. Garret wrote:

> What makes me wonder is, why is this product even remotely related to gedit?  Some dependency down the tree of dependencies?

gedit's python27 variant depends on python27, which depends on db46.

Perhaps you can build gedit without the python27 variant to avoid this. (Not sure if gedit requires python or whether it's optional.)