Python packaging targets

You're describing pretty much what I tried to get into the LSB. We're talking early 90s - that's THIRTY yearts ago, and there's been f-all progress ...

We need a PACKAGE to be able to pass a list of requirements to the OS. There's no damn use the OS telling a package what it's got, it needs the package to tell it what it requires. I wanted to enable proprietary packages to pass their list of dependencies to the OS, but the same principle holds for FLOSS software as well - it needs to be able to tell the OS what it needs.

Given my complete lack of success, I doubt you'll do any better :-( The LSB was all about the package being able to ask "have you got lsb package X?", bugger all use to your normal user ...

Cheers,
Wol