On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 09:41:08PM -0400, Stephen Waterbury wrote: > > These are all broken and you should report bugs on them. I have > > reported many for Ubuntu. A system application should only ever > > depend on the system Python (or interpreter), never on the whims of > > your $PATH.
> I agree with Barry here -- I would even go further and say that > the Python used by system apps (i.e., apps that the OS depends on) > should be separate and should not be on the default PATH (so the user > can't use it accidentally), and no non-system apps should use the > system Python unless specifically installed by the user or sysadmin > into the system Python's area. I agree with you, and not with Barry that all these are broken. If you look at the apps that use "#!/usr/bin/env", they are all pretty non-system apps, like for instance "f2py". I think it is good that these apps use the default python: I don't want to have f2py to be running for another python than my default one. I am actually quite surprised to see that ipython is installed with a hardcoded path to /usr/bin/python. Anyway, I am not going to bug report anything, as my system works just fine, thank you. Gaƫl _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig