The hplip ebuilds don't make use of the python module compile and cleanup functions in python.eclass, causing *.pyc files to be left behind on uninstall with USE=X
Additionally it installs python files outside of site-packages, which might not be so nice on python 2.4->2.5 and future updates, as python-updater might not find them. Not sure about that though
I'm working on this. One thing I don't understand, though, is how you can get .pyc files which are normally the result of running the optimize function from the eclass which isn't being used at the moment. Ant idea about this ? Denis.
(In reply to comment #2) > how you can get > .pyc files which are normally the result of running the optimize function from > the eclass which isn't being used at the moment. Ant idea about this ? I believe that if the python scripts are ran with python -O or something like that, then the python interpreter itself saves the compiled results next to the .py for later time gains on next executing of that same script
It's now fixed in 2.7.12-r1. As per our conversation, I didn't move the python stuff into site-packages as this looked like a scary idea. Denis.
