On 09/08/2009 03:56 PM, Steve Traylen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Stephen John Smoogen<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Kevin Fenzi<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:28:35 -0500 (CDT) >>> Mike McGrath <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Should we have a stronger effort to replace older RHEL packages if we >>>> put them in their own namespace and don't conflict? >>> >>> Well, how much interest is there in this? >>> How many packages would we have? >>> > > One thing we often do at users/developers request is role say > python2.5 to install along side the system python2.3.4 on say EL4 where > we aim for it to do no harm. Users have to explicitly call it. > I'd be very happy to see and submit things like that. > So the one problem with this is the logistics of also building new python modules. You probably don't just need python2.6-2.6.x, for instance, you also need python-pycurl built against python2.6, python-setuptools, TurboGears, et al. This is not undoable, but it is a package explosion.
-Toshio
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