Index: gar.mk
===================================================================
--- gar.mk	(revision 5611)
+++ gar.mk	(working copy)
@@ -561,7 +561,8 @@
 MERGE_EXCLUDE_LIBTOOL ?= $(libdir)/.*\.la
 MERGE_EXCLUDE_BACKUPFILES ?= .*\~
 MERGE_EXCLUDE_STATICLIBS ?= $(libdir)/.*\.a
-MERGE_EXCLUDE_DEFAULT ?= $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_CATEGORY) $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_INFODIR) $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_LIBTOOL) $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_BACKUPFILES) $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_STATICLIBS)
+MERGE_EXCLUDE_PYCOMPILED ?= .*\.pyc .*\.pyo
+MERGE_EXCLUDE_DEFAULT ?= $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_CATEGORY) $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_INFODIR) $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_LIBTOOL) $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_BACKUPFILES) $(MERGE_EXCLUDE_STATICLIBS) $(if $(CSWPYCOMPILE),$(MERGE_EXCLUDE_PYCOMPILED))
 
 # Exclude these files
 ifeq ($(origin MERGE_EXCLUDE_FILES_$(MODULATION)), undefined)
Index: gar.pkg.mk
===================================================================
--- gar.pkg.mk	(revision 5611)
+++ gar.pkg.mk	(working copy)
@@ -156,13 +156,15 @@
 SPKG_CLASSES := $(SPKG_CLASSES) $(if $(PRESERVECONF),$(if $(filter cswpreserveconf,$(SPKG_CLASSES)),,cswpreserveconf))
 SPKG_CLASSES := $(SPKG_CLASSES) $(if $(INITSMF),$(if $(filter cswinitsmf,$(SPKG_CLASSES)),,cswinitsmf))
 SPKG_CLASSES := $(SPKG_CLASSES) $(if $(USERGROUP),$(if $(filter cswusergroup,$(SPKG_CLASSES)),,cswusergroup))
+SPKG_CLASSES := $(SPKG_CLASSES) $(if $(CSWPYCOMPILE),$(if $(filter cswpycompile,$(SPKG_CLASSES)),,cswpycompile))
 # - set class for all config files
-ifneq ($(SAMPLECONF)$(PRESERVECONF)$(INITSMF),)
+ifneq ($(SAMPLECONF)$(PRESERVECONF)$(INITSMF)$(CSWPYCOMPILE),)
 _CSWCLASS_FILTER = | perl -ane '\
 		$(foreach FILE,$(SAMPLECONF),$$F[1] = "cswsampleconf" if ( $$F[2] =~ m(^$(FILE)$$) );)\
 		$(foreach FILE,$(PRESERVECONF),$$F[1] = "cswpreserveconf" if( $$F[2] =~ m(^$(FILE)$$) );)\
 		$(foreach FILE,$(INITSMF),$$F[1] = "cswinitsmf" if( $$F[2] =~ m(^$(FILE)$$) );)\
 		$(foreach FILE,$(USERGROUP),$$F[1] = "cswusergroup" if( $$F[2] =~ m(^$(FILE)$$) );)\
+		$$F[1] = "cswpycompile" if ( $$F[2] =~ m(\.py$$) );\
 		print join(" ",@F),"\n";'
 _EXTRA_GAR_PKGS += CSWcswclassutils
 endif