-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 13, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Stephen Waterbury wrote:
Gael Varoquaux wrote:
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:59:21AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Apr 12, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote:
I used to always set up my own Python[s] in /usr/local and put that first in my PATH, but I have gotten lazy lately, and sometimes it will bite me. ;)
On Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) you might have even more fun. They put /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages on the sys.path *of the system python*! This means that you can break your system Python by installing a version of Python from source and then distutil'ing things into there. Astoundingly, this is promoted as a feature.
I want it like that. You are confusing /opt and /usr/local.
Heh ... that shows my Berkeley roots -- I'm not confused, I'm just an old SunOS guy still in denial about that damn SysV stuff that Solaris brought in, like using /opt instead of /usr/local -- bah, humbug! The OS has /usr; /usr/local is *mine* dammit! ;)
You and me both Steve! Of course, we're old farts so when we retire <wink> the kids can have their /usr/local. Until then, they'll have to pry it out of hands. :) - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSAI5EXEjvBPtnXfVAQKU3wP+LnbcfTiE9AwDmIdNGrbnijGxWM5xGNgF Zg42Zs9RWWjjCABoOkZyHw1k3f0mp5DZtgA/XR8joPiVwyq8VV2diIQI4pw/c2No AGP0XpTOeqjHSm84jEDIT1YaFfp5NTuDzN360zxM4neLi9nG7pVD+OGebL4n/OPh aSB08rP/vKM= =cqEh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----