Re: standard Python build for Debian distributions

[Florent Rougon <florent.rougon@free.fr>]

Damon Fasching <fasching@design.lbl.gov> wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,

To complete Chris's answer, if you want to know which Debian binary
packages to install in order to get the same things as if you had
installed from the source, you may want to something like:

  grep-available -enF Source -s Package '^python2\.1$'

(this requires the grep-dctrl package)

In Debian, source packages are often broken into several binary
packages. This is a good thing. This lets you install what you need and
no (or at least not much) more. For instance, upstream xfree86 is
composed of many components like xdm, fonts, xnest, etc. that you don't
necessarily want to install on every machine. Installing only some of
them is possible and easy to do because the xfree86 source package is
split into a bunch of binary packages. Same with python and many others.

-- 
Florent