On su, 2003-08-24 at 08:38, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 23:54, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > The problem is, run pydance as any user with write permissions to > > /usr/share/games/pydance, and the *.py's there will be compiled and > > saved as *.pyc's using whatever version of python was used at the time. > > When you de-install or purge pydance, the *.pyc's will be left behind. > > The only such user should be root, who shouldn't be running pydance > anyway...
Not pydance in particular, perhaps, but this is a more general problem with Python programs packaged in this way. My own package, enemies-of-carlotta, has a program that root might very well want to run (e.g., to list the users on a mailing list), and it would be bad for the .pyc to be regenerated in this case for the wrong python version. I haven't a solution for this right now. -- http://liw.iki.fi/liw/photos/swordmaiden/
