On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:46:47AM -0500, Ryan May wrote: > 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.) For instance, last time I looked, fedora had removed numpy.distutils from the numpy package, and packaged it in a different package. Very confusing... Gaël _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion