[Dev] 0.7 Linux story

[Grant Baillie]

On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:39 , Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> ...
> In 0.7 we should also take a more careful look at how we distribute
> Chandler on Linux. Ideally with modern package systems we'd have
> Chandler rely on packages already on the system (or installed  
> because of
> marked dependencies).
>
> To make this possible we need to do some work with our build  
> system. The
> actual packaging of Chandler could be done by volunteers already
> familiar with the packaging systems of their platforms. This starts
> making sense now that Chandler is actually becoming usable.

Hmm... we currently patch around a dozen of the projects we build.  
(Some, like Python IIRC, don't apply for Linux). What does that mean  
for relying on existing system packages?

--Grant