I HATE PYTHON
I HATE PYTHON
Posted May 23, 2025 6:59 UTC (Fri) by AdamW (subscriber, #48457)In reply to: I HATE PYTHON by raven667
Parent article: Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools
"if there are better tools which can give RPM the same info that pip/uv have I haven't found them yet."
Sure there are. Modern Fedora (and RHEL, 10.x at least, I don't remember how much is in 9.x) Python packages - with sane upstreams - can automatically generate both build and runtime dependencies and provides. Fedora Python packages always provide "python3dist(modulename)" for each module they contain, this is auto-generated.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines... is the sample spec from the modern packaging guidelines. You can see that there's very little in it, because an awful lot is done automatically.