python-devel installed; can't find distutils.core

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

In article <1308300.3XRgfGWZr0 at ID-187157.News.Individual.NET>, Tristan
Miller wrote:
> I'm trying to install a Python program, rawdog, on a system running SuSE
> 9.0.  I have Python 2.3 and the development package installed via
> apt4rpm, so distutils should be there.  But for some reason Python thinks
> otherwise[...]
> 
> port-3108:/tmp/rawdog-1.13 # rpm -q python python-devel
> python-2.3-52
> python-devel-2.3.1-0

Apparently the problem was in the python-devel RPM, which does not include
distutils.  I downgraded to version 2.3-49 and now distutils has magically
appeared.

Have the distutils officially moved out of the development package to some
other package, or did whoever make the python-devel-2.3.1-0 RPM screw up?

Regards,
Tristan

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