Re: handling /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages in sys.path

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:58:56PM +0100, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:

> I would choose this option or even remove /usr/local/* from sys.path
> completely. If one wants to play with unsupported Python modules or
> Eggs, he should sys.path.append(his_path) by hand, IMHO.

I would not consider installing packages that are not packaged in Debian
"playing". Installing such packages is a common use case for system
administrators and advanced users. With the same reasoning we could
remove /usr/local/lib from /etc/ld.so.conf.

 - Sebastian