Thanks James,

> Autopackage is designed top be distribution agnostic. It is
> not the 
> preferred packaging method on any distribution that I am
> aware of, but 
> it is a good choice if you are approaching Linux software
> installation 
> from a "Windows Installer" mentality.
> 

Actually, I'm coming from a Macintosh 'unzip the app and launch it mentality'. 
I dislike installers immensely. If an application has to touch anyplace outside 
where the user puts it, it had better have a damn good reason!

Linux gamers are probably the smartest people in the world. If they're okay 
with finding the exe inside a folder, then that just saves me a step. 

This results in a better formed question: Can I get all the pygame parts 
(including things like numpy/numeric) into one location and rely on a distro's 
Python to just work? I'm pretty sure my python code is compliant back to 2.3.

>From casual searching, it seems like I may have to build some of pygame's 
>parts for specific distros. A pain, but only once per distro. 

Thanks for the list of the distros most important.

Keith

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