[Rpm-maint] rpm-python mandatory or optional?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Him
>
> rpm.org's rpm's configure fails to build "python/" if python-devel isn't
> installed.
>
> Fixing this issue is not too difficult, but to be able to do so, I'd
> need to know what the nominal desired behavior is supposed to be.
>
> Question: Are rpm's python binding considered mandatory or optional?

Fully optional.

> Depending on the answer, the configure script should either
> a) complain and abort when running "configure"
> b) silently build rpm without python bindings
>
> I see traces of (broken, non-functional) attempts to implement b) in
> rpm/configure.ac

b) is how it "worked" before I butchered it with the python distutils 
stuff. IIRC it still "works" if you specify --without-python, but feel 
free to do clean up.

 	- Panu -