[Python-Dev] bdist_* to stdlib? (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Wed Feb 15 02:35:03 CET 2006

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:00:21PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:

Joe Smith wrote:

> Windows and RPM are known for major dependency problems, letting packages > damage each other, having packages that do not uninstall cleanly (i.e. > packages that leave junk all over the place) and generally messing the sytem > up quite baddly over time, so that the OS is usually removed and > re-installed periodically.) I'm disappointed that the various Linux distributions still don't seem to have caught onto the very simple idea of not scattering files all over the place when installing something.

Well, as an end user, I honestly don't care. I install stuff through apt, it installs the dependencies for me, does basic configuration where applicable (often asking for user-input once, then remembering the settings) and allows me to deinstall when I'm tired of a package. As long as apt handles it, I couldn't care less whether it's installed in separate directories, large bzip2 archives with suitable playmates from mixed ethnicity to improve social contact, or spread out across every 17th byte of a logical volume.

As a programmer, I also don't care. I tell distutils which modules/packages, data files and scripts to install, and it does the rest. And that's why I like my Python packages to become .deb's through bdist_deb :)

You-think-too-much'ly y'rs,

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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