On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, the options I see are >> 1) .pyc/.pyo files are created as part of packaging. That way we just >> rebuild the package if needed during an upgrade. >> 2) .pyc/.pyo files are recreated on python/package update. So, we would >> have a pre_update script that finds all the .pyc/.pyo files, deletes them >> and a post_update script that rebuilds them. In this option, it would be >> better if .pyc/.pyo files were not part of a package as I don't like one >> package touching another packages files. > > The problem with option #2 is that those files are no longer tracked > by pacman. Removing the package could still result in removal of those > files, but it gets very ugly... it'd be nice if these files were > tracked by pacman.
OMG you said that already... sigh
