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[06:44:17] <ngaio> tdsmith, given the diversity of system package managers on Linux, it would be a real shame if each packager had to go through the steps of installing the icons, man page, desktop entries and every other minimal requirement (what a pain!). I really don't know what dstufft and co have in mind but perhaps that kind of operation could be turned into an extension to their work. Maybe they're already doing that, I have no idea.

[06:47:24] <tdsmith> i think it's mostly considered out-of-scope

[06:49:25] <ngaio> oh

[06:51:08] <ngaio> I guess someone among the Linux python community will have to develop it then. I seems just so essential and basic. Maybe distutils-extras can be adapted to whatever the next generation of Python package tools is going to become. I'm just speculating.

[06:52:19] <ngaio> In my particular use case it turns out that python3 -m pip install package.tar.gz works well enough, as comes with bonus of a built-in uninstall too :-)

[06:53:10] <ngaio> and comes*

[06:53:48] <ngaio> what I don't know at this point is how the Linux python packagers handle that. Is it compatible with creating a DEB package? I guess I'll find out!