"Lite" vs. "Full" Python Ports

[Arthur Koziel]

On 13.04.2009, at 23:19, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
> Right, the way the py25-* version installs it is different than if you
> install it directly with python25, that's actually part of the  
> problem with
> splitting them out, as mentioned with the -S stuff on #12369:
>
> ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_hashlib.so
> vs
> ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so
>
> There will probably be confusion however, so a FAQ entry might be  
> nice.
>

That is, if you split the Python 2.5 port in "python2.5" and  
"python2.5-minimal". I thought we would just enable the core modules  
in python25, not split the port. See the "python25-reenable-libs.diff"  
patch on #12369.

> Bryan

Arthur