[kde-freebsd] Re: ports/155435: [PATCH] devel/kdebindings4-python-pykdeuic4 leaves .pyo files after deinstall

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

The following reply was made to PR ports/155435; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito at gmail.com>
To: "Jason E. Hale" <bsdkaffee at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/155435: [PATCH] devel/kdebindings4-python-pykdeuic4 leaves .pyo files after deinstall
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:18:11 -0300

 "Jason E. Hale" <bsdkaffee at gmail.com> writes:
 
 > Right.  It works as it was intended; generate the .pyc file and install the 
 > .py and .pyc files.  Somehow the .pyo files are being generated at runtime.  I 
 > have not figured out what is causing that.  I only discovered it because I was 
 > switching from Python 2.6.x to Python 2.7.x and was looking at all the 
 > leftovers in the site-packages directory.
 
 I suspect something might be wrong with the Python handling code in
 ports -- I also had a lot of *.pyo files in my 2.6 site-packages after
 the ports were upgraded to 2.7, and I had to manually remove them.
 
 > I simply got to the bottom of why the .pyo files were not being installed in 
 > the first place since just about every other Python application in the ports 
 > tree installs them.  That is why I patched the PYTHON_INSTALL macro to also 
 > install the optimized byte-compiled code.
 
 I see. Well, I'd rather have this kind of change discussed upstream. As
 for this specific problem, I don't think it's KDE's fault.