[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Mike Orr wrote:

> On 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> For distros like Gentoo or Ubuntu that rely heavily on their
>> own system Python for the OS to work properly, I'm quite loathe to
>> install Cheeseshop packages into the system site-packages.  I've had
>> Gentoo break occasionally when I did this for example (though I don't
>> remember the details now), so I always end up installing my own /usr/
>> local/bin/python and installing my 3rd party packages into there.
>> Even though site-packages is last on sys.path, installing 3rd party
>> packages can still break the OS if the system itself installs
>> incompatible versions of such packages into its site-packages.
>
> One wishes distro vendors would install a separate copy of Python for
> their internal OS stuff  so that broken-library or version issues
> wouldn't affect the system.  That would be worth putting into the
> standard.

Agreed.  But that would just eliminate one potential source of  
"application" conflict (defining the OS itself as just another  
application).

- -Barry

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