[Mathieu Desnoyers, 2014-10-13] > The page you link to explains why Debian Python 3PP > packages install into dist-packages, but not why the > python interpreter search for packages only within > dist-packages, but not site-packages.
it installs into dist-packages so that it *doesn't have to* search in site-packages. That's the main purpose of dist-packages existence (Python upstream developers are not annoyed that we overwrite their files and we're not annoyed they overwrite ours) > Can you explain specifically which part of the > documentation applies to my original question > from your point of view ? http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-python.html#s-paths -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
