Hi all, I think I found the root of the problem that people have we sqlalchemy shipped inside sage. The latest patch set for python in Gentoo enable the honouring of a flag preventing bytecompilation of python modules, it seems like sqlalchemy should explicitly be installed with bytecompilation disabled. I will cook up a patch shortly.
After floating a few ideas about a separate mailing list for sage (on Gentoo or other distros) the consensus seems to be that the traffic would too low to be really viable. So we may point users to the gentoo-science mailing list (and bugzilla). Francois
