[Distutils] Buildout 2 and system packages

[Jim Fulton]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Lele Gaifax <lele at metapensiero.it> wrote:
...
> I do understand that the documentation says “use virtualenv† to fix the
> issue,

Or a clean Python build.

> but I'm curious about the position of the “dist-packages† in the
> list:
>
> 1) why does it ends in the middle?

The paths are listed in the order that the corresponding distributions
are found when satisfying requirements.  So paths corresponding to the
requirements you list will tend to appear earlier than the paths
corresponding to their requirements, and so on.

In some system installs, many system-installed distributions end
up in the same path.

> 2) is (the position) controllable/explicitly determinable in some way?

Not directly.

Jim

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