[StarCluster] A way to install .deb python packages and preventing them to re-install scipy

[Mark J. Pearrow]

There are a couple mechanisms that do something like this, dpkg-divert and dselect. See these articles:

http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-prevent-a-package-from-being-updated-in-debian.html
http://www.debianadmin.com/replace-binaries-and-files-with-dpkg-divert.html

Not sure if this entirely answers the question but it's a starting point at least

mjp