[Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:39 PM 11/24/2005 -0800, Robert Kern wrote:
>I'm not suggesting that /usr/share/.../ should be the only place to find
>  .egg-info directories. Simply that pkg_resources would scan
>sys.path+['/usr/share/.../'] and treat the ones found in /usr/share/.../
>as if they were in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/. Everywhere else
>that a user could put Python packages (e.g.
>/usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/) is fine to put whatever the
>user wants. Eggs, .egg-info/; it doesn't matter. It doesn't need an
>alternate location. Debian packages need to be more disciplined, but all
>Debianized Python packages are installed to
>/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ so we only need the one alias, not many.
>
>It's possible that only the DD in charge of packaging setuptools will
>have to concern himself with coding this.

Or they can just put the /usr/share/whatever directory on sys.path just 
after site-packages, with no need to modify setuptools then at all.  This 
solution would work today even with a locally-installed (including 
user-home-directory-installed) version of setuptools.