On 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For distros like Gentoo or Ubuntu that rely heavily on their > own system Python for the OS to work properly, I'm quite loathe to > install Cheeseshop packages into the system site-packages. I've had > Gentoo break occasionally when I did this for example (though I don't > remember the details now), so I always end up installing my own /usr/ > local/bin/python and installing my 3rd party packages into there. > Even though site-packages is last on sys.path, installing 3rd party > packages can still break the OS if the system itself installs > incompatible versions of such packages into its site-packages.
One wishes distro vendors would install a separate copy of Python for their internal OS stuff so that broken-library or version issues wouldn't affect the system. That would be worth putting into the standard. -- Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
