[Bug 545720] Review Request: googsystray - A system tray application for accessing various (online) Google apps

[bugzilla at redhat.com]

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional
comments should be made in the comments box of this bug.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545720





--- Comment #11 from Leon Keijser <keijser at stone-it.com>  2009-12-14 14:26:12 EDT ---
Yeah, don't worry, thanks for reviewing this pkg :)

I had an couple of ideas on how to handle this:

1) the python distutils setup.py tool is very flexible. You can make a
subcommand that, for example, will install everything except the gXlib files.
To be used for example like this:

% setup.py install-without-python-xlib

I'm not an expert python programmer, but if the author doesn't have time to
make it (or doesn't want to?), i can give it a shot and create a patch. 

2) install everything as normal and then rm -rf the gXlib dir. And rpmlint will
most likely complain about using dangerous commands. 

3) ask the author if he can pretty-please drop python-xlib and have the INSTALL
file point to the download link from where they can download the dependency and
install it themselves. 

Although IMO option 3 would be the best way package-wise, i doubt it would go
well with the entire Fedora 'motto' which includes freedom. For the developers
to create the application the way they want to (why should upstream adjust a
perfectly good working application just because we can't package it nicely?).

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug.