On 03/25/2014 11:42 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > I think it was clearly explained here: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-February/162518.html > > I did not do the research into this explanation - it looks like others > have though. I'm just the poor victim who's systems were trashed by > this nasty bug, which causes fedora update to abort leaving you with a mess.
If it was numpy (as it appears it was), then numpy adds its *own* hackery on top of distutils, and then also tries to detect when setuptools is in use. There's a reason our PyCon packaging panel last year ended up being subtitled "./setup.py install must die" :P As Toshio notes, there's definitely value in the approach of saying "this dir is for pip, this dir is for the system package manager". Debian/Ubuntu does that by making the system packages install into dist-packages instead of site-packages, but I wonder if we could so some tweaks in site and sysconfig to instead redirect pip to /usr/local. I'll think about that one a bit more - could be a good thing to hack on at the PyCon US sprints next month. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan Red Hat Hosted & Shared Services Software Engineering & Development, Brisbane Testing Solutions Team Lead _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel
