-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 13, 2008, at 8:04 AM, 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. > > This is the way I expect things to work. I do not want to install my > own > packages in "/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages". This is for apt to > deal > with, not for me.
Actually, the solution that I believe is a good compromise is to find some other path in /usr/local to augment the system Python's sys.path with. All I'm saying is that Python itself uses /usr/local/lib/ pythonX.Y/site-packages as the default from-source path, so if Debian wants a /usr/local path, it can pick some other subdirectory path and still meet its goals. BTW, I believe Debian is unique here. I talked to the Fedora guys and I've talked to a few Gentoo guys and both seemed surprised by Debian's policy here. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSAI4A3EjvBPtnXfVAQLeagP/aCKr6WL+qvvM8vhABFxJDBbOJw1hQUQT fCUwL3bZ21a6iKiHLv5mdVBfaFjcqEmnbGqizUmTgnTuG+SaUXHNqBBG2lDCTZUF fNwWThN/TRtqO5OdknqFcfTQARtBE+YN52CpugjSmRrudZtAAdslWds8HnUP3nlG kN9J0TsEo1E= =DDbJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
