[Distutils] setuptools --no-dependencies option needed?

[Rob Cakebread]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 
> use "setup.py easy_install . --no-deps"
> 

We've tried that but it fails because we need to install to our sandbox 
directory first. Currently we use this, so we need to be able to specify 
the root with your example:

python setup.py install --root=${D}

I've tried every combination of setuptools options I can think of (-d, 
-s, --prefix, -S) but it always fails with permission errors trying to 
write to the root filesystem:


error: can't create or remove files in install directory

[Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/test-easy-install-4486.write-test'

Thanks,
Rob