On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 12:37:58 AM UTC-4, Andreas Lobinger wrote: > > > http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/pkg/#Base.Pkg.dir > > For improving the documentation it would be interesting, what information > you (or your admin, the 'they') had used for the setup. >
One thing that is not clear to me is: what happens when I have several package directories: a readonly global one where only root can install new packages, and a local user one where the user can install. Which one should Pkg.dir() return? How will Julia know about the other one? I know now about Base.LOAD_PATH and Base.LOAD_CACHE_PATH, and know that each of them can have multiple paths in them. Their contents does not seem to have any effect at all on Pkg.dir(), though. Is it possible to have some packages in a system wide global directory, say /usr/local/share/julia/site/... and some user installed packages in a user directory, say ~/.julia/...? How would such setup be achieved?
