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

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:34:30AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Python 2.6 has two standard places for installing packages:
> 
> 1. In the stdlib site-packages/ subdir
> 
> 2. In the user home dir's .local/lib/python2.6/site-packages dir

And is missing a 3rd one.  The sysadmin who wants to install packages
globally has to use the first option here, but that conflicts with the
system package management on UNIXes.

Regards
Floris


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