On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, David Lyon<david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: [snip] > The main problem imho has been that easy_install by default > has installed to /usr/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages when in > fact that really is an operating system controlled directory. > > So naughty naughty to setuptools....
I've witnessed this a few times... and I completely agree with that statement. :-) > That's why in pythonpkgmgr, we're moving to an entirely > different place where there is no chance of conflict with > the os package manager and python packages can be installed > without su privelages. [snip > Under ubuntu, it seems to be /usr/local/pythonX.X/site-packages > and I am checking other posix operating systems and trying to > work out what the equivilents might be. Perhaps I'm not reading what you're saying correctly. Doesn't /usr/local/pythonX.x/site-packages require su privileges to install? FWIW, the equivalent of /usr/local/pythonX.x/site-packages on Mac OS X seems to be /Library/Python/X.x/site-packages -John _______________________________________________ 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
