[Distutils] An observation on how system packagers and developers can be friends

[Tres Seaver]

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On 10/28/2010 05:54 PM, Benji York wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
>> Heh, "untar + CMMI into a non-system prefix" works for me. ;)
> 
> +1 with the small addition of "after making sure the dev dependencies Python
> sniffs out to build modules for (zlib, crypto bits, etc.) are available."

Heh, agreed.  That bites me on about every third machine I set up for
the first time.  The Usual Suspects (TM) are whatever the local
packaging system calls the following (and their -dev or -devel packages,
if split out):

- - zlib
- - ncurses
- - bz2
- - readline
- - openssl


Tres.
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