I never understood the fear of leaving the system&#x27;s package manager&#x27;s packages. Maybe I&#x27;ve been on Slackware too long, but compiling&#x2F;installing packages from source is the norm. Also, package managers tend to ship with --enable-everything-everywhere-no-matter-what configure options. Compiling from source you can say yes, support libpng, no don&#x27;t care about libjpeg etc and get a much leaner setup.<p>I know there&#x27;s the argument that by straying you don&#x27;t get security updates, but I can&#x27;t really imagine Python 2.4 getting much security updates nowadays.