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2) The problem is not opensuse specific. I can't see any aspect to the problem that would not apply equally to fedora, debian or any other GNU/Linux distro with python support.
That is why I suggest the solution all of the distros already agreed upon: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Alternatives I'd point to the Fedora page, but their wiki appears to be down ATM.
I suggest contacting the Python Software Foundation and other organizations with responsibility for the evolution of the python language as a whole. Hopefully, someone can suggest a solution that would apply to all distros.
I love Python, and the people involved in it, but historically, the approach to new packaging features has been fork-and-eventually-replace. Some of those forks included "features" that have been downright hostile to distribution packagers, and I still instinctively scan packages for pointless runtime dependency checks. (Thank you, setuptools...) It's gotten better for sure, but the consensus just isn't there, and I doubt we will see one any time soon. Even if they agreed on one-true-way, it would take years of discussion/implementation/deployment before we could use it. We need something we can implement today, using the packaging systems already in place. -- James Oakley jfunk@funktronics.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org