On Sunday 17 January 2010 17:26:04 Ryan Rix wrote: > On Sun 17 January 2010 1:36:07 pm Armelius Cameron wrote: > > Yes, a lot of these are for software development > > No, they are not just for software development. Applications use them at > runtime. Say you write a Plasma widget in python. Doh... yes, of course, you're right :). If any of the applications one is trying to run use any of these bindings, then the libraries are needed during runtime. RPM Yum dependencies should take care of that via dependencies, hopefully. AC