On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:02 AM, David Warde-Farley <d...@cs.toronto.edu> wrote: > On 21-Oct-09, at 11:01 AM, Ryan May wrote: > >> ~/.local was added to *be the standard* for easily installing python >> packages in your user account. And it works perfectly on the other >> major OSes, no twiddling of paths anymore. > > I've had a lot of headaches with ~/.local on Ubuntu, actually. > Apparently Ubuntu has some crazy 'dist-packages' thing going on in > parallel to site-packages and /usr and /usr/local and its precedence > is unclear. virtualenv also doesn't know jack about it (speaking of > which, there's no way to control precedence of ~/.local with > virtualenv, so I can't use virtualenv to override ~/.local if I want > to treat "~/.local as the new site-packages").
Ok, so *some* linux distros also choose to break stuff. I'm noticing a theme here where OSes that strive for ease end up breaking something basic. I'm not saying they all need to drastically change; they just need to insert their paths *after* ~/.local. (Thankfully, Gentoo doesn't get in my way.) Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
