[illumos-Developer] webrev: 278 get rid zfs of python and pyzfs dependencies

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 11:12 +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> >
> > So, from my perspective there are three options:
> >
> > a) accept that dependencies change, and deal with the fallout when a
> > dependency changes.  (This is hard to do when we don't "own" our own
> > copy of python, and worse, python brings with it *GNOME* dependencies!).
> 
> AFAIK python itself does not depend on any GNOME component.
> That probably an artifact of the JDS consolidation. There is no reason why
> Python add-ons should not be delivered separately (similar to the
> source itself).
> There is no obvious reason Python shouldn't come with SFW consolidation.
> In fact JDS/SFW separation is a bit unnatural, but that is probably
> not ON/Illumos
> problem to solve.

Moving from JDS to SFW doesn't solve the real problem, which is lack of
coordination and management of dependencies.

Hopefully my rationale for not wanting python or perl deps in ON is a
bit more clear now.

	- Garrett