Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 10:09 -0800, Ondrej Certik a écrit : > Unfortunately from both of you I only met Matthias in person (in > Prague at the Ubuntu Developer Summit), but what I understood is that > there are some technical reasons why python-central is better.
I’d be happy to hear these reasons; I’m always eager to improve python-support when there is room to. Currently I know one reason why you could consider python-central better: this is because it installs files at the same place the upstream packages do. This avoids breaking some (bad) packages’ expectations. I have two remarks about this: * The python-support README has documented for long how to work around this problem if you encounter it (remember it concerns a handful of packages). * If python-support was the only tool to write files to /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages, there would be no problem with using this directory. However there are packages using python-central and packages shipping files directly there, so it is simply not possible without losing the advantages of python-support (like, not introducing 50 RC bugs every time something is changed). Besides, I could show you several reasons why python-support is superior, and at least one why python-central is broken. > Josselin, it's true that if you were discussing with me in the same > tone as you are with Matthias, it will not make me very happy But I am not using this tone with you, and the reason is that you are behaving correctly. Cheers, -- .''`. Debian 5.0 "Lenny" has been released! : :' : `. `' Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and `- told that if you don't install Lenny, he'd melt your brain.
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