Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
 
> There are one issues left:
> the software is written in python. I don't know python, but it seems that
> when a file is used python will dump the bytecode for this file to disk:
> is myfile.py is used, a myfile.pyc will appear. This pollutes the
> $PREFIX/mailman hierarchy, and the package won't deinstall cleanly.
> Is there a way to deal with this in pkgsrc ?

I believe you can precompile all python files before installing.
Whether or not that is a configure-option (or something) or something
that we'd need to do between build and install, I don't know.

-Jan

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