[Distutils] Overiding the site-packages/<module> directory name?

[Bob Tanner]

Is there a way to override the site-packages/<module> directory name?

I'm trying to make a debian package for FormEncode-0.4, by default 
"/usr/bin/python2.4 setup.py install  --no-compile -O0" creates a directory 
structure llike:

`-- usr
    |-- lib
    |   `-- python2.4
    |       `-- site-packages
    |           `-- FormEncode-0.4-py2.4.egg
    |               |-- EGG-INFO
    |               `-- formencode
    |                   |-- javascript
    |                   `-- util

Reading python-policy 1.4, I believe a 3rd party module should be just 

        /usr/lib/python<X>.<Y>/site-packages/<module-dir>

I would like to see

`-- usr
    |-- lib
    |   `-- python2.4
    |       `-- site-packages
    |           `-- formencode
    |               |-- javascript
    |               `-- util

I'm working around the "problem" by installing a formencode.pth pointing to 
the /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/FormEncode-0.4-py2.4.egg directory.

I've played around with FormEncode's setup.py and the site-packages path seems 
to be based on the setup(name=xxx, version=yyy), but I could not see any way 
to change these values without really messing up all the other tools that 
depend on these values.
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