Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> writes: > What is the relation between dist-packages/site-packages if any? Is > this just a name change or is there some other problem being > addressed?
The problem being addressed is to maintain the distinction between OS-vendor-managed files versus sysadmin-managed files. That is, the distinction between: * Python packages installed by the operating system package manager (the OS “distribution”, as distinct from the Python-specific meaning of that term); versus * Python packages installed by the site administrator, outside the purview of the OS package manager. This distinction is important in operating systems with a functioning package manager. > For developers is it best just to create one's own private > installations from the original tarballs? Developers should be making changes as neither the system administrator nor the OS package manager, but as a regular user of the system. So installing to a user-specific package location seems best. -- \ “Holy rising hemlines, Batman!” —Robin | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list