On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > -----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. > >
What about the proposal I made about the smarter easy_install ... isn't that just enough ? -- Regards, Olemis. Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: Comandos : Pipe Viewer ... ¿Qué está pasando por esta tubería? _______________________________________________ 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
