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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:52:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [RFC] First draft: add Tkinter to python
From: Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>
To: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
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You could possibly look at how voidlinux handles the cyclic dependency
by splitting the package:

https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/python/template
https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/python-tkinter/template

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to get Tkinter in python; while I know that needs to wait for
> tk to move to main, I'm not sure how to get the whole thing working right.
>
> The biggest problem is that Tkinter needs Tk, which ultimately needs
> libxcb, which in turn has python in makedepends.
> But I'm not sure what's a good way to handle that.
>
> Also, this would make quite a few things ultimately depend on X11.
>
> Here is a patch that works to build Tkinter when PYTHON_TK is not set to
> "false".
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Isaac Dunham


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