Python required?

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 08:05 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Currently, HAL's configure will bomb if Python isn't installed. From
> what I can tell, though, Python is only used in the device-manager,
> which is certainly optional. It seems to my eyes that the reason for
> the failure is because the autoconf macro AM_PATH_PYTHON will error if
> it doesn't find Python.

The only bits that need it are: