On Jul 15, 2010, at 06:55 PM, Markus Gattol wrote: > Barry> This means that if you install Python from-source, as many > Barry> Python developers do through the default cmmi build, and system > Barry> administrators do achieve Python builds isolated from critical > Barry> system resources, you could break your system Python by > Barry> installing incompatible packages into what you thought was an > Barry> isolated environment. > >You mean because the source install of Python installs into >/usr/local/lib/python3.1/site-packages in addition to /usr/local? It >still does if I recall correctly. Well, from-source installs of Python have a default --prefix of /usr/local, so yes it all goes in /usr/local and /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages is on sys.path. I'm not sure that's exactly what you meant by "in addition to" though. Thanks for the updates Markus. -Barry
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