Run 1.20rc5 (or compile) without python-pygame?

[TwistedLincoln]

Is it possible to use 1.20rc5 (or compile it from source, if needed) without python-pygame? That package depends on libsmpeg0, which uses MPEG technology that is patented in the United States, and therefore impossible for us to legally distribute. We've included Deluge (1.19) in our Nexradix GNU/Linux distribution, and would like to continue doing so. Is there a way for us to shed this dependency in 1.20 and upwards, or will we just have to keep shipping 1.19 (or switch programs)?

[johnnyg]

pygame is used to do sound notifications in the GTK UI (deluge/ui/gtk/notification.py).
Seeing it is a runtime dependency you should be able to compile and run deluge without it with the only downside of not being able to do sound notifications.

[andar]

As a side-note, I'd like to remove this dependency in the future.