[Yum] Re: package dependency question

[Rick Graves]

Seth,

Thanks for the quick response.  

I am still hoping for a clean solution to the problem.


> python 2.3 does break some of those packages. 
> Especially b/c the path changes :)

1) Sorry to be whining, but I thought hardcoding a
path is not good programming practice.  At the
console, when I type just "python", I get python 2.2. 
Is there a good reason for hardcoding the path?

2) Would it be possible to install python 2.3, and
keep python 2.2 for packages with hard-coded paths?

Thanks,

Rick


--- yum-request at lists.dulug.duke.edu wrote:

> Unless Python 2.3 breaks those packages (which I
think
> is unlikely), I thought I should be able to upgrade
> Python to a newer version without this kind of
> objection.  

python 2.3 does break some of those packages.
Especially b/c the path
changes :)

/usr/lib/python2.2 vs /usr/lib/python2.3

-sv