From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] yet another package check (take 2)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:59:36 +0000
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>How about
>
>if ! python -c 'import xml.dom.minidom' 2>/dev/null ; then
>  echo
>  echo " *** Check for python development environment FAILED"
>  exit 1
>else
>  exit 0
>fi

Why not - I didn't invent the other method, I just cloned what we had for
python-devel (which in turn I created based on suggestions from you and
others). I'm not a python person at all, I just want understandable error
messages when dependencies are missing instead of cryptic ones.

Jan