In RHEL world too, bundling of libvirt + its python binding is causing
pain with the fairly recent concept of "software collections"[2]. This
allows users to install multiple versions of languages like Python, Perl,
etc on the same box in parallel. To use libvirt python with thse alternate
python installs though, requires that they recompile the entire libvirt
distribution just to get the Python binding. This is obviously not an
approach that works for most people, particularly if they're looking to
populate their software collection using 'pip' rather than RPM.