Package management (was: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <87aap44mc7.fsf_-_ at benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney wrote:

> Sadly, Python's package management is rather lacking by these standards.
> The Distutils legacy assumption of “package recipient, system
> administrator, and end user are all the same person”, among other design
> decisions, makes it unusually difficult to have the necessary separation
> of concerns between OS packaging, system administration, and end user.

Doesn’t matter. I’m pretty sure Debian has a way of automatically turning a 
distutils build into a .deb package with all the right dependencies. :)