I have been reading the discussion of this problem and I note 2 things: 1) The problem has hair. That is, there are many subtle nuances to the problem that would make it easy to take a bad solution to the problem resulting in disaster. 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. If separate distros adopt different solutions to this problem, it will be a headache to those who must support more than one distro. 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. -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 pelliott@BlackPatchPanel.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117