[Distutils] distutils install probs on suse 9.0

[Mats Wichmann]

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.  I looked
at some other distros and they're not doing this.
If there's to be a python-devel package it could include
the C-language headers and link-time python library,
but not distutils (suse's package includes all of these).

I'll drop someone I know there a note privately but this
doesn't really constitute a formal bugreport.