[Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 16:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz escribió:
>> Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> > 1) are there lighter-weight alternatives for the most popular uses of
>> > numpy?
>>
>> No.  It has no competition, and is used by virtually every program that
>> uses python and performs array manipulation.  I think it would probably be
>> part of the python standard library except for political issues (now
>> mostly resolved).
>
> It's not used as much as you think:
>
> 1!bernie at giskard:~$ LANG=C rpm -e numpy
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        numpy is needed by (installed) pygame-1.8.1-7.fc12.x86_64
> bernie at giskard:~$ rpm -qa | grep python | wc -l
> 93

On a standard SoaS install unfortunately that is completely useless
because of course .xo files have no dependency tracking so it only
covers the few packages that are rpms. Of course if the rpm format was
used the dep tracking would be easy :-D

Peter