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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, at 09:16, Random832 wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, at 06:27, Christian Heimes wrote: > > Separate directories don't prevent clashes and system breakage. But they > > provide an easy way to *recover* from a broken system. > > I think it could be turned into a way to prevent them by A) having > site-packages always take precedence over dist-packages [i believe this > is already the case] in normal usage and B) providing an option to the > interpreter, used by system scripts, to exclude site-packages entirely > from the path. > > Basically, site-packages would effectively be layered on top of "Lib + > dist-packages" in a similar way to how a venv is layered on top of the > main python installation - the inverse of the suggestion someone else > in the thread made for the system python to be a venv. This wouldn't > *exactly* be a venv because it wouldn't imply the other things that > entering a venv does such as "python" [and script names such as pip] > being an alias for the correct version of python, but it would provide > the same kind of one-way isolation, whereby the "system environment" > can influence the "normal environment" and not vice-versa, in the same > way that packages installed in the main installation affect a venv > [unless system-site-packages is disabled] but the venv obviously has no > effect on the main installation. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/IQA6RHY24WGVVGRJT67CFABQVA5MMO3H/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
