Re: [Fink-devel] python varianting

2008-08-13 Thread Jack Howarth
Daniel, I am quite willing to convert my packages like sparky-py, pymol-py and relax-py over to use update-alternatives to create the required non-variant symlinks. However I still think not conflicting the different python variants for python based applications is of extremely dubious utility.

Re: [Fink-devel] python varianting

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:07:55AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: >Here are my two cents on this issue. In the past for the > python variant packages I maintain, I have added conflicts > with the view that it is undesirable to allow users to > install multiple python variants of executable packages

Re: [Fink-devel] python varianting

2008-08-12 Thread Jack Howarth
Here are my two cents on this issue. In the past for the python variant packages I maintain, I have added conflicts with the view that it is undesirable to allow users to install multiple python variants of executable packages. The user should have the option to build the package against the pyt

Re: [Fink-devel] python varianting

2008-08-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
Pepe Barbe wrote: > On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > >> What if a package has python-versioned dependencies, but does not >> itself build public python modules (e.g. a user-executable >> application)? Should we just pick a single python flavor in such >> cases? T

Re: [Fink-devel] python varianting

2008-08-12 Thread Pepe Barbe
On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > What if a package has python-versioned dependencies, but does not > itself build public python modules (e.g. a user-executable > application)? Should we just pick a single python flavor in such > cases? This comes up occasionally wit