Python equivalent of CPAN (Was: ANY NEWS ON THE STARSHIP?)

[Thomas A. Bryan]

roger day wrote:

> I think there should be some way of grouping modules, so that, say, if one
> module needed others to work, then the latter should be loaded and installed at
> the same time. Or something like that :-)

Roland mentioned debian's apt-get command.  I think that it 
includes some sort of dependency system so that one package 
knows which other packages it needs, and the command can 
alert the user which other packages are needed to run the 
one he's getting.

I'm not sure whether Python can support this type of functionality.
Is the disutils SIG working on this problem too?

---Tom