Tzu-ping Chung <uranu...@gmail.com> added the comment: > I'm not sure if it should be used to install libraries in $HOME/.local/lib64 > rather than $HOME/.local/lib. Previously, Fedora already used > $HOME/.local/lib and $HOME/.local/lib64 is not in the sys.path.
This was also briefly discussed in bpo-1294959, but did not go through since “changing posix_user should have no impact on end users”. > Does the site module add $HOME/.local/lib64 to sys.path if it exists? It does not, only lib is checked right now. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/c7ea1e3dcea6fbc9842463ce2b785b43501b1eaa/Lib/site.py#L288-L298 ---- There are two possible solutions from what I can tell. We could just make posix_user match posix_prefix and always respect sys.platlibdir. This could be confusing to existing Python 3.9 users however since many of them already pip-installed things into ~/.local/lib and this would make their user-site packages split in two locations. The other would be to restore the pre-3.9 behaviour in sysconfig to use lib instead of depending on sys.platlibdir. I don’t know who uses sysconfig right now and can’t say what would break, but for pip this would be less disruptive since it currently installs things into ~/.local/ib (provided by distutils). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44860> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
