So, I'm trying to achieve a couple different things with workingenv, and I'm not sure how to make it all work... I don't want one workingenv to have unintentional links to package in another environment. Sometimes easy_install will find a package somewhere else on the system, which is fine, but I want it to copy it into the workingenv. I thought the easy thing was to add "[easy_install] always_copy = True" to distutils.cfg. And this works. *But* always_copy doesn't work with develop eggs. So specifically there's a problem if I want to install both distribution A and B as editable/develop eggs, and B depends on A. I can install (via setup.py develop) A, and then install B, but B fails with something like error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('A==0.1') (--always-copy skips system and development eggs) Note that 'A==0.1' is something easy_install/setuptools came up with, B only requires 'A'. So, it seems having always_copy on really gets in the way of development eggs. Is there another way I can avoid sharing packages without always_copy? Or... something, I'm not sure. -- Ian Bicking | ianb@colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org