[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > may be -f is better as it search for a larger pool but since I only > need those needed by TurboGears, -i is enough for me, so long it is > properly maintained on TurboGear's index :-)
-f tells easy_install to read the specified page for any links on it, while -i tells TurboGears to do all PyPI lookups using the specified page as a base URL. The difference is that -i is going to make easy_install try to look up URLs like 'http://www.turbogears.org/download/index.html/RuleDispatch/', which of course won't work. It will then fall back to the plain URL, so it's basically just a really wasteful way of doing the same thing as -f in this case. :) The idea of -i is for if you run your own version of PyPI, or if the PyPI URL changes between releases of setuptools and you need to override its default. The -f option, on the other hand, is for reading user-provided link pages, such as the TurboGears download page.
