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A few comments...

When I merged in the spython package, it gave me a warning that
sys-devel/spython is required. I merged dev-lang/python in, and
unmerged spython, and just symlinked /usr/bin/python to spython, and
everything seems to be working perfectly. I've been thinking, since
the python and spython packages have alot of overlap, we could either
make python and spython mutually exclusive (or make dev-lang/python an
"upgrade" to spython), or we could make spython search in
/usr/lib/spython2.0 as opposed to /usr/lib/python2.0. This would
create a lot of identical files on the filesystem, but that way, at
least if you merged in the dev-lang/python, and then unmerged it, you
wouldn't remove all the files in sys-devel/python. In fact, I think
the latter would be a great solution. That way, you can have the
statically linked spython and regular python installed simultaneously
w/o having any overlap (which is a big pet peeve of mine), and not
have problems created by merging/unmerging dev-lang/python. I can try
and hack the spython package to get this to work, if you want.

Pete