The way to fix ports/104560

[Alexander Botero-Lowry]

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> Alexander Botero-Lowry p=ED=B9e v =FAt 23. 01. 2007 v 03:31 -0800:
> > > > Please take a look at ports/104560 (and also ports/105853 and
> > > > ports/106120) and come to a consensus what is the right way to fix th=
> is
> > > > issue.
> > > >=3D20
> > > > I am sure we can come to an agreement and shortly commit a fix.
> > >=20
> > > As I see it:
> > >=20
> > > - lang/python metaport must be removed
> > > - all lang/python2? ports will install $PREFIX/bin/python binary
> > >=20
> > > How that sounds?
> > >=20
> > > Or if people absolutely need to have several different pythons on a
> > > system, make the bin/python automatical symlink, like in perl ports.
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> > This fails to deal with installing the site-packages in the appropriate
> > site-package directories.
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> How so? You don't need to have interpreter called python2.5 to install
> into 2.5's sitelibdir.
You absolutely do. THe pyc and pyo files are part of the package list and
have to be generated by the installation process. So you must have python2.5
to install to the python 2.5 site-packages.

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