On Mar 26, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> wrote: > [Barry Warsaw, 2014-03-25] >> One of the things I'd like to see, in addition to supporting >> platform-specified system-level installation directories >> (i.e. /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages on Debian), is an upstream switch >> to tell Python to ignore this directory, mirroring e.g. -s. That way, if >> people say "Well I just pip installed foo into /usr/local and it broke my >> system" we'd be able to respond "you better use pythonX.Y --dont-blame-us". > > I like the idea (where --dont-blame-us simply disables support for > .egg/.zip/.whl in the interpreter, assuming pip/easy_install installs > zips instead of unpacking them) > -- > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 20140326131210.GD30037@sts0.p1otr.com">https://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 20140326131210.GD30037@sts0.p1otr.com > Pip does not install as an .egg or a .whl. It doesn’t use .egg at all and regardless of which format it downloads it unpacks it and installs it. There is no difference in format between what pip installs and any debian package I’ve ever looked at. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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