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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> The installer has basically three choices.
> 1) Install libnettle inside the application directory
> 2) Install libnettle to some system library directory
> 3) Don't install libnettle, and demand that someone else (perhaps the
> user, or the system package manager) install it.
> 
> Option 2 is exactly what you're complaining about,
> scattering files all over the FS.

Not really. On MacOSX, if you installed a shared library
called libnettle, *all* the files relating to it
would be kept in one directory called Nettle.framework
(either in /Library/Frameworks or ~/Library/Frameworks
depending on whether it's system-wide or for a single user).

MacOSX doesn't currently have an automatic dependency
manager, but if it did, things would still be a lot neater
and tidier than they are in Linux or Windows, where what
is conceptually a single object (a package) gets split up
and its parts scattered around several obscure locations.

-- 
Greg