[Yum] Re: package dependency question

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:39 -0800, Rick Graves wrote:
> 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?

they do that so both python 2.2 and 2.3 could be installed at the same
time - but the path to site-packages (where to find the python modules
from external packages) must be known.



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

not really.

this is why those items are rebuilt.

-sv