Nov. 15, 2009
1:57 a.m.
The problem is that the main python distribution ("python") is not working as advertised since it contains distutils, which requires "python-devel" to work.
This implies that "python" has a dependency on "python-devel", which does not make sense anymore for linux distros to have two distinct packages for Python.
Having some of the makefile vars stored in stdlib solve this problem.
I don't see how this can solve the problem. Distutils contains the build_ext command, which definitely will require the devel package. Regards, Martin