New submission from Phil Mitchell <philip.mitchell@gmail.com>: When running easy_install with a platform-dependent egg on a python installation whose exec-prefix differs from its prefix, the egg is installed in the platform-independent site-packages directory. In some senses, this seems okay because the egg name contains the platform name, but the easy_install.pth file only includes the egg from one platform, and if multiple eggs with the same name (but different platform) are added to the easy_install.pth file, then only the first will be considered. This comes up when using a common installation of python on a network share with different exec-prefix settings for each platform. This would not be an issue if easy_install were to install platform-dependent eggs into the platform-specific site-packages location and set up the easy_install.pth for that location appropriately. I am able to set things up this way manually, but it is not quite as "easy" to "install." ---------- messages: 477 nosy: philbert priority: bug status: unread title: easy_install does not honour exec-prefix for platform-dependent eggs _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue99> _______________________________________________