Hi, Christopher Lenz: > (And no, I'm not going to repeat the numerous attempts by Phillip to > politely and comprehensively explain it all.) > Sorry -- I don't buy that. I've read all these messages too, and I also don't know what's in the metadata besides dependency information.
Debian, rpm, and other Linux packaging systems don't need to install Python-specific dependency information in their packages. It's probably nice to have so that non-system Python packages can complain properly, instead of throwing an incomprehensible exception later (and leaving one with a partially-installed system or whatever), but that's a different problem. > When Debian users want to install and use those systems, you're gonna > gave to tell them why eggs aren't supported. > It seems that the next version of the .egg builder _will_ support a mode that works for Debian packaging, which is *great*, so ... -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de - - Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. -- Southey
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