On Mar 26, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote:
> [Donald Stufft, 2014-03-26] >> On Mar 26, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote: >>> [Barry Warsaw, 2014-03-25] >>>> One of the things I'd like to see, in addition to supporting >>>> platform-specified system-level installation directories >>>> (i.e. /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages on Debian), is an upstream >>>> switch >>>> to tell Python to ignore this directory, mirroring e.g. -s. That way, if >>>> people say "Well I just pip installed foo into /usr/local and it broke my >>>> system" we'd be able to respond "you better use pythonX.Y --dont-blame-us". >>> >>> I like the idea (where --dont-blame-us simply disables support for >>> .egg/.zip/.whl in the interpreter, assuming pip/easy_install installs >>> zips instead of unpacking them) >> >> Pip does not install as an .egg or a .whl. It doesn’t use .egg at all and >> regardless >> of which format it downloads it unpacks it and installs it. There is no >> difference in >> format between what pip installs and any debian package I’ve ever looked at. > > then --dont-blame-us has to mean removing /usr/local from sys.path > -- > Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer > www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org > GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140326131639.ge30...@sts0.p1otr.com > In my half formed idea in my head the way it’d work is there’d be a vendor-packages directory where downstream can install things to, and a flag to the interpreter to remove the typical site-packages. So then you’d get something like: python -I —no-site-packages -m something ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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