[tahoe-dev] Build problems: using installed packages, and install failure

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Jack Lloyd <lloyd at randombit.net> wrote:
> Aha. Thanks for the hint. Gentoo wants to be difficult:
>
> $ python -c 'import pkg_resources;print pkg_resources.require("Twisted_Core")'
> [Twisted-Core 8.2.0 (/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages)]

Twisted was going to be split up into separate packages at one point,
but they pretty much gave up on that idea and went back to
distributing it as a single monolithic package. I know that Debian had
the same problem -- that there was not a .egg-info file just named
"Twisted", and I believe they solved it by adding a package that
depends on the other Twisted-Foo packages and which provides a
Twisted.egg-info file.

Regards,

Zooko