Re: [Distutils] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you

David Cournapeau wrote:

There are two ways of looking at it, I think. One is to think that linux FHS (and unix in general) is totally broken.

I don't think it's *totally* broken. I do think it goes overboard with splitting things up and scattering them around. I understand that there are reasons for some of that, but I don't see why e.g. includes, library files and other resources used by a package can't be kept together.

I personally really like how gobo linux tries to go around that:

http://www.gobolinux.org/

Hadn't heard of that before -- it sounds quite nice! Rather like MacOSX might look if it had dependency management. -- Greg