On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:07, Nick Jones wrote:
> this situation. I'll get around to testing this soon. I'd prefer
> that portage be ~arch before you make python ~arch, as it'll cause
> headaches otherwise. 

Yes, that is something I forgot to mention. I won't be putting
python-2.3.2 into ~ until the new portage is unmasked. 

> > * Maybe we should think about using a non version specific directory for
> > Python modules to ease upgrade.
> 
> I agree.

Probably to expand on that a bit. Basically, only pure python modules
can go in /usr/lib/site-python (this is supported in python) and
c-modules (bindings) can go into
/usr/lib/python${version}/site-packages. 

There are a number of issues to address before this works, namely, how
.pth files will be installed and how we get distutils to distinguish the
two. I haven't looked into this in depth, but probably distutils has
something similar to prefix and exec_prefix like autoconf.

Cheers,
-- 
Alastair 'liquidx' Tse
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