Please, let's not confuse people.

I intentionally threw out a lot of dependencies of that package so they could start off with a reasonable minimum. That means Core, GUI, XML and Help. Core and XML are IIRC part of PR1.1. GUI is needed anyway. Help is maybe an overkill as not many would have Qt Docs on the N900 anyway, and you are free to improve on the demo app inherited from upstream to rid it of the QtHelp dependency (as Nokians say, patches welcome ).

The *advantages* of going through the app manager instead of apt-getting IMHO outweigh the 10 megs of optified space you save:

• You get automatic updates

• You can uninstall cleanly without potential sideeffects

• No need for root user and console operations

• You get about 50 examples of various Qt classes implemented in a Qt App

• You get html documentation of the Python implementation of Qt classes

• You get a demo app, which shows the examples from above in a user-friendly manner, again, no console-mongering needed

Now, if you KNOW what you need PyQt for and need no examples, no Maemo integration, updates, whatever, you are, of course, free to install through apt-get, but that is not the point of this thread (how to START developing in Python and Qt).