[Distutils] Bizarre behaviour with --prefix

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Josh Holland wrote:
> It seems that, without the --prefix option, the package suvatlib is
> being installed into dist-packages, while with --prefix=/usr, the
> package is going into site-packages.
> This is with python 2.6.2 on Ubuntu Karmic.

dist-packages is a Ubuntu/Debian extension.  The idea is that without
--prefix it installs in the sysadmin location.  And --prefix=/usr
should only be used when building a .dep package.

Regards
Floris

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