Re: [PATCH] gnu: python-matplotlib: Don't propagate python-numpy-bootstrap.

[Marius Bakke]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> when a profile contains both python-numpy and python-matplotlib
> (either installed directly or by propagation, e.g. when from
> python-ipython), a lot of warnings about conflicts between
> python-numpy and python-nympy-bootstrap appear, because matplotlib
> propagates its python-numpy-bootstrap dependency.

Ouch.

> This patch works around it by creating an intermediate
> python-matplotlib-bootstrap package as well, which is then used as a
> native input to generate the documentation of python-numpy.
> python-numpy is then used as a propagated input of python-matplotlib,
> so python-numpy-bootstrap doesn't appear in user's profiles anymore.
>
> What do you think?

This sounds sensible. Does numpy not require any matplotlib functions at
runtime? If so, this patch LGTM. The new matplotlib-bootstrap variables
should have an explaining comment though :)

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