On 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a related issue that may or may not be in scope for this > thread. 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 wonder if would help if we were to add a vendor-packages directory where distros can put their own selection of 3rd party stuff they depend on, to be searched before site-packages, and a command-line switch that ignores site-package but still searches vendor-package. (-S would almost do it but probably suppresses too much.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
