Bug 60345 – RFE: Python packaging of py, pyc and pyo

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Bug 60345 - RFE: Python packaging of py, pyc and pyo

Summary:	RFE: Python packaging of py, pyc and pyo

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	python2 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Reported:	2002-02-26 06:27 EST by Pedro Miguel Marques Morais
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-02-26 06:27:20 EST
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Description Pedro Miguel Marques Morais 2002-02-26 06:27:15 EST

Description of Problem:
In most situations the py file from the class lib aren't needed,
since the pyc/pyo are preferred when importing it.

It would be nice to include ONLY the pyc/pyo in the base python package
and add an adicional python-py package that included the .py files;
even further maybe the pyc/pyo files could be in separetad rpms.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All version, filled against python2 because it's a major change

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-02-26 09:56:01 EST

Won't do that. I'd rather drop the pyc files. We don't need huge amounts of new
pseudo packages.

Comment 2 Pedro Miguel Marques Morais 2002-02-26 10:08:16 EST

emacs has emacs-el; what use are the 1.676 MB (in python 1.5.2, not checked
for 2.2 but I'm sure it's a bigger number) of python source code forthe 
regular user?
We are talking about an almost 20% reduction in an almost mandatory package,
with no functional loss.
Anyway, since when is a large number of packages a bad thing?
The Redhat Perl packages are moving in that direction...

Comment 3 Nils Philippsen 2002-03-02 08:13:56 EST

I regularily use the .py files as reference/interface documentation.

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