Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Maybe this is a dumb question, but if this is a Debian-specific issue, > can't you just create a Debian package that combines the setuptools .egg > and .pth files with a '/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/distutils.cfg' file > that contains the right options? Then, --prefix and --site-dirs would both > be unnecessary at the CLI level.
I'm not about to request for a change in Debian's Python policy. But now that I've had a chance to review the new documentation (much improved! Thanks!), I think that the easiest route is to tell people to set their prefix and site-dirs in their ~/.pydistutils.cfg . And no, it's not just Debian. One of my complainants uses Fedora Core, and the other uses Debian, but maintains his self-built Python packages using Stow. I just use Debian as an example because I'm familiar with it. This is mostly an issue for people on various Unix-type setups with package managers. For example, Ian Bicking has the same issue with FreeBSD and comes to the same distutils.cfg solution: http://blog.ianbicking.org/alternate-python-install-dir.html -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
