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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 09:10:44 +0200
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]
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On Sat, Aug 02, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> 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.

How does "a package" differ? Its "a package" here and there.
Just use the correct tools to inspect "a package", like
'rpm -qliv $package' to see what "a package" is all about.

Olaf