floris bruynooghe ixiimgpdmcgmljvwgmailcom sat mar 22 2008 044236pm 0100 martin v löwis wrote speak debian debian yes setuppy would pretty bad packager use reason rewrite upstreams installation procedure would figure files need installed would create many bugs canonical way something like pythonxy setuppy rootpwddebiantmp fixup anything done wrongbadly debian setuppy make tarball pwddebiantmp reality slightly complicated course slightly pycentral pysupport still doubt database would show directory syspath would bug pycentralpysupport two bugs file bad think 1 many packages paste parallelpython good examples youre interested look debianrules file started nevow uses cdbs debianrules nearly empty include call setuppy instead distutils support usrsharecdbs1classpythondistutilsmk would bug cdbs specific snippet showed yes essentially pythonxy setuppy rootsome_alternate_root said aside also happen camp dislikes cdbs specifics complications dont matter discussion think setuppy installs correct file installdb work almost cases neal becker confirmed true fedora well regards floris debian gnulinux power freedom wwwdebianorg wwwgnuorg wwwkernelorg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom mon 04 aug 2008 121825 0000 pythondev distutils get rid eggs 26 beyond