[Distutils] distutils install probs on suse 9.0

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:52:58AM -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Mats Wichmann wrote:
> 
> >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.  I looked
> 
> That's a nice illustration for missing metainfo.
> As DU1 only deals with a single package, one would essentially
> have to provide two separate 'setup.py' files to build the
> 'user' and the 'devel' packages.
> As you point out, most distros make the distinction,
> so it might be a good idea for DU2 to provide support
> for that, such that 'python setup.py dist' will be able
> to generate both, <foo>, as well as <foo>-devel.

Agreed. I think DU2 needs a Package class (as in distributable package,
not python package). Distribution can be abstracted a bit more to
support managing multiple packages, with a default of 1 (the current
behavior).

mwa
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