Re: Avoiding software duplication

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Greg Troxel wrote:

> > Most major Linux distributions include Python in the base 
> > installation.
> > The EL family, for example, depends on it, since YUM is written in it.
>
> And, I often hear people having problems because the included version 
> is
> too old.  This hasn't happened for a few years, but until crazily
> recently people wanted python packages to keep 2.4 support because some
> very old LTS of CentOS (or something like that) had 2.4.  Usually the
> suggestion for them is to use pkgsrc :-)

RHEL5, which, in fact, was released in 2007 and uses the 2.6.18 kernel, 
has
Python 2.4.  And it's going to be supported (ELS) until 2020.

> Many things in pkgsrc have a "builtin.mk" file that controls whether 
> the
> base system version is used or the package version when a bl3 is
> included.   Some of these are acutally in mk/ instead.

I see.  Some of the OpenSSL libraries/headers weren't installed, that's 
why
it was pulled from pkgsrc.

> I have never heard of our python packages being able to use the base
> system version.  The rest of pkgsrc expects the python build to be just
> as pkgsrc builds it, and trying to use the base one seems likely to be
> difficult.  But, if you want to experiment and locally add builtin
> support and see how it goes, that would be interesting.   I will say
> that for python, I expect you to run into a lot of issues which are
> nontrivial to resolve.

I think I'll try that, out of curiosity.


Thanks!

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