David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > I don't understand what you mean here. How do packages get into > > the system location if they're not installed there at some time? > > What, specifically, do you hope people don't do? > > I meant installing packages from sources into /usr.
That's what the Debian packaging system would do when installing a Python package. What would you have different? > I know some people do that under debian for example, and of course, > they overwrite/mess up the package most of the time (because dpkg > has already its own version there, for example). The question that seems inconsistently addressed is: What should happen when installing (onto a Debian system) via distutils a Python package that *isn't* packaged yet for Debian? -- \ "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his | `\ salary depends upon his not understanding it." —Upton | _o__) Sinclair, 1935 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
