[Barry Warsaw, 2014-03-25] > One of the things I'd like to see, in addition to supporting > platform-specified system-level installation directories > (i.e. /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages on Debian), is an upstream switch > to tell Python to ignore this directory, mirroring e.g. -s. That way, if > people say "Well I just pip installed foo into /usr/local and it broke my > system" we'd be able to respond "you better use pythonX.Y --dont-blame-us".
I like the idea (where --dont-blame-us simply disables support for .egg/.zip/.whl in the interpreter, assuming pip/easy_install installs zips instead of unpacking them) -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140326131210.gd30...@sts0.p1otr.com
