-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Mike Orr wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For distros like Gentoo or Ubuntu that rely heavily on their >> own system Python for the OS to work properly, I'm quite loathe to >> install Cheeseshop packages into the system site-packages. I've had >> Gentoo break occasionally when I did this for example (though I don't >> remember the details now), so I always end up installing my own /usr/ >> local/bin/python and installing my 3rd party packages into there. >> Even though site-packages is last on sys.path, installing 3rd party >> packages can still break the OS if the system itself installs >> incompatible versions of such packages into its site-packages. > > One wishes distro vendors would install a separate copy of Python for > their internal OS stuff so that broken-library or version issues > wouldn't affect the system. That would be worth putting into the > standard. Agreed. But that would just eliminate one potential source of "application" conflict (defining the OS itself as just another application). - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRWyYEnEjvBPtnXfVAQJCKQP7BXVOYUIvbEBgFK7nWHieBqRGXzohhKNZ SN5qV4P6uZGnCtjp1Z4W8U82X8TH+X3Ovx02mS+GN+nrlyF7AVhDr/mSLXI90Kan 1dqOhAIz5rBeT03/k0SpAPSiBhonl4zF4ZmezGaz3lif2CjsH6PT9153Mv7wXb1N ut2QIhXnejA= =jhbd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
