[Distutils] distutils install probs on suse 9.0

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:41 AM 5/21/04 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote:
>At 11:22 AM 5/19/2004, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> >At 10:22 AM 5/19/04 +0200, Floris van der Tak wrote:
> >
> >>Distutils was indeed part of python-devel, which is on the dvd,
> >>but is not part of the standard installation.
> >>
> >>Thanks for your help,   Floris
> >
> >Somebody should probably provide feedback to the packager that they
> >shouldn't yank out arbitrary parts of the Python distribution into separate
> >(OS-level) packages.  The standard library is the standard library: it
> >should not be subdivided.
>
>Mmmm, just about every distro is using the concept of
>splitting out packages you don't need if you're not
>a developer, but it's wrong in this case.

It's wrong in every case where the standard library is concerned.  That is, 
after all, what "standard" means.  :)