On Feb 5, 2008 10:24 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, there are *lots* of ways the user can screw up the system as > root. Doing a default python install from source is *not* one of them, > no matter what it does with those symlinks. If you know of a system > where things are otherwise, please warn me about it now.
Ubuntu will screw up if you login as root and build a newer python version then 2.2. You wont be able to use it's GUI package installer and other issues. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com