On 12/05/2011 10:26 PM, todd rme wrote:
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:12 PM, James Oakley
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Second, true. But most setuptools-based packages support --install-scripts, which at least would put them in a separate folder (you can symlink to them, manually, true).
But if you were doing this you would still need to make the other folder be in the global path, so there wouldn't be any point having it in /usr/bin.
Actually, you can use update-alternatives for this. It's precisely the situation it was intended to solve, and it's already in use by a number of packages in openSUSE, such as the verious Java packages, and vim/vi.
Yes, someone has suggested that, but we still need to figure out what to do with the original files. That would be me then. Simple, just postfix binaries with the Python ABI version they prefer (i.e. rename them). That would be option 2 of yours ;-) This way, we only have to touch packages that actually install binaries, the others can be left alone. -- Viele Grüße, Sascha