> you should not install into /usr/lib/python2.6 yourself. this has the
potential to override system compnents.

Indeed, to avoid this I was used to set the prefix to /usr/local and I
recommended this also when giving instructions for installing a module -
but this recommendation fails now on Jaunty, as /usr/local/lib/python2.6
/site-packages is not in the sys.path anymore.

> see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
devel/2009-February/027439.html

I see the renaming to dist-packages is pretty useful. To be sure here:
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages is reserved for custom Python
installations and will not be part of the default sys.path anymore?

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Python distutils installs into 'site-packages' instead of 'dist-packages' when 
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