On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 09:56 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I am sorry I was being obscure. My point is that the installation of > > python involves the installation of several rpms. So to say python > > is installed does not mean all of python is installed. > > But python-base would surely appear to be the base install of python, > wouldn't it? I don't know what distro that package was coming from, > but I would guess that it's what corresponds to the python package on > Fedora, which is installed by default AFAIK. > > > That is what happened on one of my FC4 machines. All of my yum > > upgrading did not install python-tools to add to the other 10 or so > > python related rpms I had installed. I had to specifically yum > > install python-tools and some other rpms that came along with it. > > I'm not sure I understand the problem. Did you have idle installed > via rpm and an upgrade removed it? If it wasn't installed previously, > there's no reason to expect an upgrade to install it. I would > consider it a bug if it did (unless somehow idle became required to > run one of the other python packages that was being upgraded). > > - -- Let's drop this since what I ma saying is not understood and it is a trivial point. I expected that if python is installed when the OS is installed python-tools would be included. I was surprised that it was not. Obviously, I could and did install it when I saw it was missing. -- ======================================================================= I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
