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Installation conflict between VTK and ParaView

When installing ParaView with Python enabled in the default directory, it contains a lot of python related files in : lib64/python3.7/site-packages/vtkmodules

which includes, for example : vtkCommonDataModel.py

These files are conflicting with files generated by VTK installation.

There are two possible fixes imo :

  • Adding the possibility to build ParaView with an external VTK. This has been requested but it seems to be quite hard to do.
  • Adding a suffix to all these files

@ben.boeckel: this is not related to the current changes to the module system, but if you have an idea how to fix this that would be great.

@michael.migliore @mike.rye

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