[Distutils] Req: easy_install.py --site-dirs

[Robert Kern]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:01 PM 7/16/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:

>>Ah, now that's service! It works fine for me. I would suggest changing
>>the altinstall.pth example, though. Python doesn't seem to like
>>
>>   addsitedir('/Users/kern/lib/python2.4')
>>
>>Although it will be just happy with
>>
>>   import site; site.addsitedir('/Users/kern/lib/python2.4')
> 
> Um, the example I put in the EasyInstall doc for --site-dirs was:
> 
>          import os; addsitedir(os.path.expanduser('~/lib/python2.3'))
> 
> So I'm not sure what you mean here.

Eventually someone is going to want to do

   addsitedir('/usr/local/stow/easy_install/lib/python2.4/site-packages')

which won't work. The explicit "import site" encourages people not to 
tread that path.

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