"Martin v. =?UTF-8?Q?L=C3=B6wis"?= writes: > Seo Sanghyeon wrote: > > Instead of referring confused users to the distutils manual all the time, > > Debian's Python should be configured to install under /usr/local when > > using distutils to do local install by default. > > This will break the build process of many Python-based packages, right? > They don't give an explicit prefix when running setup.py, so they > would install into /usr/local, which in turn would violate Debian > policy.
but the general idea sounds fine (to destinguish between packages provided by the distro and local stuff). One way would be to first make this a required policy, and after all/most of the packages are converted, change the prefix. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
