Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: We do not want to create a directory under $prefix before installation. This would be a sort of dirty half-installation. When you have an uninstalled, unconfigured Python, you cannot install modules without giving a prefix option: this sounds good to me.
---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12246> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com