Re: [Distutils] setting the right owner of local subdirectories

Antoine Pitrou <antoine.pitrou@wengo.fr> writes:

But an annoying side-effect is that, when you first run "sudo python setup.py develop" (or "install"), it also creates directories in the local directory under the root user.

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