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[Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT sourcemage.org>]

OK. I committed a big change for devel/python spell with this commit log:

"""
python: fix the huge bug in spell: when you have a lot of python modules 
installed (in /usr/lib
python2.5/site-packages dir), and want to recast python, it will recompile 
every module in that
dir recursively, while adding every compiled (.pyc) and object (.pyo) files. 
So package of
python becomes bigger with any new pythonic module/app. And if we want to 
recast python
(remember -- every module in site-packages must be reinstalled after python), 
then we need to
dispel all pythonic modules first, then cast python, then cast all those 
modules. We MUST do it
not only after minor version upgrade -- but EVERYTIME we want to recast 
python, to keep it
clear an proper.
"""

Well, you should UPDATE you python spell now.
And yes.. a little history.. A week ago i found this bug, but i thought it 
was some "feature"
and forgot about it. After updating some pythonic spells i wanted to recast 
python and noticed,
that time for packaging it was a bit longer. Then i tried anothe python 
module -- then recasted
python again. It was bigger than the time before. `gaze install python' 
answered the question.
All this time we had such real bug: python compiles every module and saves it 
in its install log
and in the package. That's because our system doesn't use FAKE installations 
to the fake dir
(for example like in OpenBSD ports system), so then we must expect such 
problems.. and here
you are.. Pythonic one :)

This commit does:
- If you recast/update-to-a-new-version/recompile python -- all spells which 
has some of theirs
  files in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages dir, will be recasted.
- first of all it dispells every such spell with adding `cast_self' trigger 
to it
- then it casts python
- finally it casts these spells

Well, I had ~50 pythonic modules @ my lappy box. after dispelling some 
unneeded i tried `cast -c python' while having these ones:
* 4suite
* bzr
* cherrypy
* flup
* libgsf
* libxslt
* pycairo
* pygtk2
* pysqlite
* pyxml
* sonata
* wesnoth
* blender
* bzr-gtk
* exo
* genshi
* libxml2
* pil
* pygobject
* pygtksourceview
* setuptools
* vte
* wxpython

With the huge spells like wesnoth (yes, it was compiled with python support 
:) and wxpython, it took ~55-60 mins on my 2.0GiHz/1GiB centrino duo lappy.

And, yes: comments/suggestions a pretty welcomed!

-- 
Cheerz,
Vlad "Enqlave" Glagolev

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