From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:10:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:10:35 -0400 Received: from pk.nord-com.net ([213.168.202.34]:5369 "EHLO pk.nord-com.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:10:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:05:55 +0200 From: Roland Bauerschmidt To: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Will 2.6 require Python for any configuration ? (CML2) Message-ID: <20010823140555.A1077@newton.bauerschmidt.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Roland Bauerschmidt , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20010822030807.N120@pervalidus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010822030807.N120@pervalidus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > Am I the only one afraid that the Python requirement can turn > into a problem ? You can develop anything on Linux without > Python. I'd compare Python to Tcl - you only install it to > waste space, develop, or run applications that use it. Perl > is very different. It's required by GNU Automake and more. > > I'm really surprised by the fact that nobody noticed what a > nightmare 2.6 will be with such a requirement. You can't > expect everybody to install something that's of no use for > most. Well, I don't know the details of the plans, but IMHO is a dependency to python for configuring the kernel not unreasonable. Nowadays a lot of people don't even compile their kernels themselves, and thus not _everybody_ is required to have python installed. When using make menuconfig you are also required to have curses development files installed even if you don't need them for anything else. Python also is of (fast) growing popularity, and for example in Debian (I don't know about other distributions, but I suppose it's similar there) Python is Priority: standard (whereas libncurses5-dev surely isn't). You my 0.02$, Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt