On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:49:00PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 09:08 PM 11/27/2005 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >Removing the dependency checks entirely and replacing them with Debian > >dependencies is definitely an option, and I happen to prefer it slightly > >to the necessity of adding empty .egg-info files to all python module > >packages. > > Just a reminder: without the .egg-info metadata (or something similar), we > aren't fulfilling one of the primary use cases, which is Debian users > wanting their bleeding-edge installs to not duplicate stable packages.
If a dedina user wants bleeding edge, she should be running sid or etch where this is packaged. Or ubuntu. > This is probably the number one gripe of Debian users on the TurboGears > mailing list: "why doesn't easy_install see my Debian ElementTree package?" > (or some other dependency). They don't seem to mind easy_install adding > stuff to /usr/local that there's not a Debian system package for, but > they'd like it to be able to "see" the Debian packages they've installed > and not rebuild/reinstall them. This should be reported as a bug toElementTree package. a -- mors ab alto 0x46399138 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
