From 4aae5c458e852763a2e6dca5f4bbb2729fd280cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:28:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] python-darcsver: Don't depend on Darcs.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=20371
---
 pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 8e35fdacf13..dcebf275587 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -107,7 +107,10 @@ rec {
       sha256 = "1a5cl2yhnd88a4vkc9r381cbjkcvga87dp9zx5av68857q1nvvvq";
     };
 
-    buildInputs = [ pkgs.darcs ];
+    # Note: We don't actually need to provide Darcs as a build input.
+    # Darcsver will DTRT when Darcs isn't available.  See news.gmane.org
+    # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.tahoe.devel/3200 for a
+    # discussion.
 
     meta = {
       description = "Darcsver, generate a version number from Darcs history";