[Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr's point of view]

[Tres Seaver]

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John Szakmeister wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, David Lyon<david.lyon at preisshare.net> wrote:
> [snip]
>> The main problem imho has been that easy_install by default
>> has installed to /usr/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages when in
>> fact that really is an operating system controlled directory.
>>
>> So naughty naughty to setuptools....
> 
> I've witnessed this a few times... and I completely agree with that
> statement. :-)

That behvior isn't setuptools' fault:  it is the behavior of *any*
distutils-derived app.  "OS controlled directory" is not a concept which
the distutils honors at all:  $prefix/lib/pytoonX.Y/site-packages is the
*intended* installation location for any modules not shipped with Python.

Consider the case where the user has built a separate python (e.g., to
avoid conflicting with the OS version) in /opt/PythonX.y:  are you
actually saying that distutils / setuptools should somehow know the
difference betweeen /usr/lib/pythonX.y/site-packages and
/opt/PythonX.Y/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages?  Or are you asserting that
it is somehow invalid for distutils / setuptools to install things into
/opt/PythonX.Y/lib/pythonX.y/site-packages, which is certainly not an
"OS controlled directory."


Tres.
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