I am very_very_very bored with the "politics" beside the rpm based distribuition (redhat, mandrake), which made impossible to to not be updating anything at any minute of the day (distributions that creates any kind of dependencies based on librairies, on anything).

Using RH7.1, you can have both the included python1.5 rpm and the 2.x rpm included on powertools installed at the same time. In rawhide there is even a beta rpm for 2.2. /Magnus