On Mar 03, 2011, at 09:08 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >Thinking outside of the box, I can think of something that would satisfy >your requirements but I don't know how appropriate it is for upstream python >to ship with. Stop shipping /usr/bin/python. Ship "python" in an alternate >location like $LIBEXECDIR/python2.7/bin (I think this would be >/usr/lib/python2.7/bin on Debian and /usr/libexec/python2.7/bin on Fedora >which would both be appropriate) then configure which python version is >invoked by the user typing "python" by configuring PATH (a shell alias might >also work). You could configure this with environment-modules[1]_ if Debian >supports using that in packaging.
I wonder if Debian's alternatives system would be appropriate for this? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives -Barry
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