[manjaro-packages] deluge

[Márton Szabó]

pygtk isn't always installed as a dependency of other packages.
Advanced users (who use the command line interface) could tweak the PKGBUILD to remove this dependency (they know what they are doing), but the package would also work for newbies.

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:43:37 +0200 -n
Bernhard Landauer <oberon at manjaro.org> írta:

> Arch will not add pygtk as a runtime depends because deluge can be run
> without its gtk-interface.
> Also optdepends description already lists it, specifying:
> 
>   * pygtk <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pygtk/>
>     (optional) - needed for gtk ui
> 
> So I guess there's no point in keepin our overlay because we'd have to
> maintain it permanently just for that.
> Most people using gtk environments will likely have pygtk installed
> anyway as a depends of other applications.
> 
> 
> On 19/04/18 19:51, Bernhard Landauer wrote:
> > I have opened a task at Archlinux
> > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58278
> >
> > Until fixed we can have an overlay, sure. The package is definitely
> > broken without depends pygtk.
> >
> >
> > On 19/04/18 14:34, Márton Szabó wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The 'deluge' package needs 'pygtk' as a runtime dependency, not only as a make dependency.
> >> I have written an email to the Arch Linux package maintainer, but he didn't respond, nor corrected the package.
> >> As Manjaro is labeled as a user friendly distro, could the 'deluge' package compiled with this dependency added in the Manjaro repos?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Márton Szabó
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