Re: [gentoo-dev] portage-1.5_pre7

Pete Gavin wrote:
>
> A few comments...
>
> When I merged in the spython package, it gave me a warning that
> sys-devel/spython is required. I merged dev-lang/python in, and
> unmerged spython, and just symlinked /usr/bin/python to spython, and
> everything seems to be working perfectly. I've been thinking, since
> the python and spython packages have alot of overlap, we could either
> make python and spython mutually exclusive (or make dev-lang/python an
> "upgrade" to spython), or we could make spython search in
> /usr/lib/spython2.0 as opposed to /usr/lib/python2.0. This would
> create a lot of identical files on the filesystem, but that way, at
> least if you merged in the dev-lang/python, and then unmerged it, you
> wouldn't remove all the files in sys-devel/python. In fact, I think
> the latter would be a great solution. That way, you can have the
> statically linked spython and regular python installed simultaneously
> w/o having any overlap (which is a big pet peeve of mine), and not
> have problems created by merging/unmerging dev-lang/python. I can try
> and hack the spython package to get this to work, if you want.
>

Hmm, it looks like our packages and python itself allways install the
complete
/usr/lib/python2.0 stuff no matter if I for example disable tcl/tk
support.
So we could do the following. The /usr/lib/python2.0 stuff comes only
with spython
The /usr/lib/python2.0/config stuff that is required for linking against
python comes
only with python. This whould resolve all overlappings and you are
allways sure you link with the
correct python config.

achim~

> Pete
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