I'm the maintainer of the debian package for pida. Pida will start without vte for python 2.4, but important features will not work.
I want to upload the new upstream version soon, so if you'd like, i would be glad to help with a patch. -- Jan Lübbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sicherheitsschwankung.de gpg-key 1024D/D8480F2E 2002-03-20 fingerprint 1B25 F91F 9E7B 5D4F 1282 02D6 8A83 8BE4 D848 0F2E