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Originally Posted by rolgiati
Going off at a tangent, I have just been told on the PCLinuxOS that the PyQt5, tkinter, PIL, cssselect, cssutils, html5lib, regex and chardet"missing" packages are not really needed for Sigil, and that I have added un-needed rubbish.
Does that make sense ?
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They are not needed to let Sigil
run and to edit epubs. True.
But those who say that you have added "un-needed rubbish" clearly don't know a thing about Sigil plugins. Those extra modules make up our "standard" modules available to all plugin developers. On Windows and Mac, those modules (and a bundled version of Python) all ship with our Sigil installer. They are expected to be available to all Sigil plugins and plugin devs on all platforms. That is what the test plugin was created for: to allow Linux users and/or packagers determine whether or not Sigil is fully plugin-ready.
So if you (or anyone) don't want to make use of any Sigil plugins, then by all means, feel free to not install any of those extras. But if you DO want to make use of Sigil plugins, then those are the modules that plugin developers will assume you already have installed.
Some Linux distros poo-poo them as completely unnecessary, some list them as optional dependencies. PCLinuxOS is clearly a distro that has very little knowledge of Sigil itself in general. Hence why I'm trying to help you make their unusual Sigil package work as it was intended to. If you remember correctly, their Sigil package wasn't working for you even BEFORE you started installing the unnecessary rubbish. That ought to tell you something about what "they say" at PCLinuxOS.
I've tried joining the PCLOS forums in the past (so I could offer direct assistance with their Sigil issues), but they have no automatic registration. That may cut down on spam, but I draw the line at "
emailing someone my desired username and password" to join a forum.