[Umang, 2010-01-31] > Unfortunately, all the files are supposed to go to sys.prefix (/usr > on most Linux distros) [1]. I still don't understand why this has > been patched to make it so difficult to understand. As a newbie, I > look up distutils on the net, find the Python documentation, believe > that files will be installed under sys.prefix and find that they are > installed under sys.prefix + '/local'. Little do I know that > somewhere in between somebody has done something that isn't mentioned > in the one source I'd like to believe. It is clearly breaking > official Python documentation. users (guided by module/application authors) do things like: $ sudo easy_install foo or $ sudo python ./setup.py instal and thus breaking system packages. To make it a little bit less painful (and follow FHS) Debian's python (since 2.6) installs to /usr/local by default. This way system packages will still be broken (/usr/local is higher in sys.path) but at least it will be easier to fix it (Python packaging system doesn't have a *working* uninstall functionality). Additionally system's python uses dist-packages instead of site-packages so local installations of python itself will not interfere with the one from Debian package. -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645
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