Python by RPM -> bad idea?

[Skip Montanaro]

    pkwoods> I'm having problems, and I think they stem from my installing
    pkwoods> Python originally through the use of an RPM.

    pkwoods> By using an RPM, I get not /config directory with a Makefile,
    pkwoods> which sounds reasonable enough, as I didn't compile anything.

If you have a python-devel RPM somewhere (probably where you got your python
rpm), it will almost certainly have the missing /config directory and its
contents.  You only need python-devel when you are building other programs
or shared libraries that use python.

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