Re: [lfs-dev] packaging (python module)

"Rahul Chandra" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:44:55 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel,gmane.linux.lfs.devel
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On 2025-04-20 14:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> About a week ago I had to add the Python module 'packaging' to LFS in 
> order to build 'wheel'. Currently we also have it in BLFS. It is 
> mentioned for glib2, three packages in Python Dependencies and five 
> packages in Python Modules.
> 
> The question is whether we should remove 'packaging' from BLFS.  We do 
> have several packages in both books: vim, libcap, and Python, but those 
> are there to provide extra functionality that can't be built in LFS 
> without a lot of additional dependencies.
> 
> Generally BLFS depends on all the packages in LFS being present, but 
> the transition from BLFS to LFS may be a problem for some users, 
> especially if the package needs to updated.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
>   -- Bruce

I think removing it should be fine, python generally gives good errors 
about missing dependencies so the first thing most will do is google 
"packaging lfs" which should bring them to the LFS page.

-- 
Rahul

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