[Distutils] RPMs should include Python version in filename

[Robin Becker]

In article <20010331002410.B815@hepcat.telocity.com>, s-thapa-
11@alumni.uchicago.edu writes
...
>  With rpm and probably other package formats like deb, you can
>have a requires that indicates the version of python needed 
>for installation.  E.g. if you place Requires: BeOpen-Python = 2.0 
>in the spec file, the resulting rpm won't install on systems 
>without python 2.0 user intervention.  Similarly a BuildRequires 
>tag allows for specifying dependencies in the build process although
>I don't think it is very applicable to bdist.
>
I thought a desirable feature of distutils was to break away from the
specialised distributions and create an automatic build system. Why do I
need an rpm if I can down load and build from source? Is it the manager
people who need these labelled lumps?
-- 
Robin Becker