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alexandernst
alexandernst

Reputation: 15099

Brew installing wrong dependencies

I'm trying to install gtk-mac-integration which, as far as I understand, doesn't depend on python3 (python2 should be enough), but nevertheless brew keeps insisting on installing python3. I don't want to install python3, so unless I'm wrongly understanding the formula of gtk-mac-integration, python2 should be more than enough.

Why is brew trying to install python3?

How can I brew install gtk-mac-integration without python3?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 386

Answers (1)

bfontaine
bfontaine

Reputation: 19810

gtk-mac-integration doesn’t directly depend on python3, but one of its dependencies do.

If you run brew deps --tree gtk-mac-integration, you’ll get something like this (truncated):

gtk-mac-integration (required dependencies)
...
└── gtk+3
    ...
    ├── libepoxy
    │   ...
    │   ├── meson
    │   │   ├── :python3
    │   │   ...
    ... ...

gtk-mac-integration thus depends on gtk+3, which itself depends on libepoxy, which depends on meson, which needs python3.

Running brew info on these formulae doesn’t give show any option that’d allow us to avoid installing python3. You thus can’t install gtk-mac-integration without python3.

Edit: gtk+3 is a recommended dependency; meaning you can build without it if you don’t need it:

brew install gtk-mac-integration --without-gtk+3

Upvotes: 1

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