Re: libdir and python on x86_64

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > It seems to me that, for a set of packages that are going to share the
> > > same module namespace, if any of them contains any arch-dependent code,
> > > *ALL* of these packages need to go into sitearch.
> > >
> > > In Extras, this would apply to both Twisted and Flumotion.
> > >
> > > Does this seem correct, or am I missing something ?
> > Hrmm... but how will this work with the non-arch-dependent packages 
> > being noarch?
>
> Python handles this correctly.  If module namespace A lives in the
> arch-dependent path, and module namespace B lives in the
> arch-independent one, then they can both be imported just fine.

Right, I completely understand this...

> The problem I'm describing is when A.B is put in the arch-dependent one,
> and A.C in the arch-independent one.  Then programs can only import A.B
> or A.C, but not both, effectively rendering A useless.

But what you're saying is that both A.B and A.C need to be in the 
arch-dependent path.  Which means that A.C can no longer be built as 
noarch (as if it is, where it ends up randomly depends on which arch 
it's built on)

Jeremy