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05/05: gnu: dblatex: Update comment.
From: |
Hartmut Goebel |
Subject: |
05/05: gnu: dblatex: Update comment. |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Dec 2016 17:08:10 +0000 (UTC) |
htgoebel pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 447b9473cba5e65a9c46c2428b588a2110f01c5e
Author: Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden>
Date: Fri Dec 2 15:20:00 2016 +0100
gnu: dblatex: Update comment.
* gnu/packages/docbook.scm (dblatex)[arguments]: Detail comment about why
the use of setuptools needs to be disabled.
---
gnu/packages/docbook.scm | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/docbook.scm b/gnu/packages/docbook.scm
index f54e031..46041c2 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/docbook.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/docbook.scm
@@ -192,9 +192,13 @@ by no means limited to these applications.) This package
provides XML DTDs.")
("libxslt" ,libxslt))) ;for xsltproc
(arguments
`(#:python ,python-2 ;'print' syntax
- ;; XXX: Disable usage of setuptools, even though it is supported.
- ;; This causes an invalid "package_base" in out/bin/.dblatex-real
- ;; due to a missing leading '/'. See this thread for details:
+ ;; Using setuptools causes an invalid "package_base" path in
+ ;; out/bin/.dblatex-real due to a missing leading '/'. This is caused
+ ;; by dblatex's setup.py stripping the root path when creating the
+ ;; script. (dblatex's setup.py still uses distutils and thus has to
+ ;; create the script by itself. The feature for creating scripts is one
+ ;; of setuptools' features.)
+ ;; See this thread for details:
;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-12/msg00030.html
#:use-setuptools? #f
#:tests? #f ;no 'test' command