Hello there, Jeff Shell wrote: > This goes into a deeper frustration I've had in the past: I installed > MySQL on my desktop (Mac OS X) using a disk image / .pkg installer > downloaded from MySQL's web site. Then I think I tried installing a > python package from MacPorts (maybe just the mysql bindings?) that had > a MySQL dependency. It didn't detect that I already had MySQL > installed, and MacPorts then tried installing it on its own.
IIRC there are variants in some MacPorts that removed dependencies from their setup.py-like file and used the system ones. It can also be dealt with by creating phantom-packages which provide the virtual "name" mysql-client, for example (which is how it's been done in apt-get repositories, etc, etc.). > Even on the most barren of machines, it's relatively > easy to build and install Python from source. I can agree with that. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
