Re: Bug#128531: tmda
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:57:52AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >>
> >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations?
> >
> > Absolutely nothing, but I don't see why this needs to be done outside of
> > the package management system.
> >
>
> I fail to see why these files need to be known by dpkg? Many python modules
> are forwards compatible, I also fail to see why supporting more than one
> version of python is a problem.
They should be known by dpkg because they're part of the package. It's
impossible to support more than just the currently installed versions anyway.
Once a new version of python is added, the package will still need to be
updated or at least reinstalled to compile the modules for the new version.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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