Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:59:21AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Apr 12, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote: > >>> I used to always set up my own Python[s] in /usr/local >>> and put that first in my PATH, but I have gotten lazy lately, and >>> sometimes it will bite me. ;) > >> On Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) you might have even more fun. >> They put /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages on the sys.path *of >> the system python*! This means that you can break your system Python >> by installing a version of Python from source and then distutil'ing >> things into there. Astoundingly, this is promoted as a feature. > > I want it like that. You are confusing /opt and /usr/local.
Heh ... that shows my Berkeley roots -- I'm not confused, I'm just an old SunOS guy still in denial about that damn SysV stuff that Solaris brought in, like using /opt instead of /usr/local -- bah, humbug! The OS has /usr; /usr/local is *mine* dammit! ;) Steve _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
