On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Josh Holland wrote: > It seems that, without the --prefix option, the package suvatlib is > being installed into dist-packages, while with --prefix=/usr, the > package is going into site-packages. > This is with python 2.6.2 on Ubuntu Karmic.
dist-packages is a Ubuntu/Debian extension. The idea is that without --prefix it installs in the sysadmin location. And --prefix=/usr should only be used when building a .dep package. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
