-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote: > >> For case one, where I want to install additional functionality into my >> system Python interpreter "forever", it would be great to have my >> system >> manage this. > > In fact, I think it /has/ to. I'll go further and say that I'm very > wary of using easy_install and the like to install non-distro provided > packages into the system Python. Many Linux distros require a > functioning system Python to operate and the distros (should) take > great care to make sure that if you install package X for application > Y, you won't break essential system service Z. Once you start > installing your own stuff in the system Python's site-packages, you > break the warranty.
Exactly: I never use easy_isntall to put packages into the system python. in fact, I only use it inside a virtalenv-generated isolated environment. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJy9k5+gerLs4ltQ4RAjOYAKCcGsqsQpcSkbaplvixIiN5gJYp+QCgrq3T wqnlezbv4wvRNAHzFX8Y1uw= =fQqU -----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
