[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Dec 9, 10:04 pm, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So, why do you think apt and not setuptools is The Right Way(tm)? > > I like to keep > 1 Python on my computer. > > 1. First, there's the system Python, which is installed by my OS and > which I try not to mess with too much. I'm guessing Ubuntu uses this > Python for various system jobs, preferences apps, etc. I try to only > use apt with *this* Python.
Start using virtualenv. You need to install that single package, and you can create as many python-instances (derived of your system's python of course) that you like. And inside these, mess around with setuptools as much as you like. > 2. Then there's my *own* Python. Maybe installed in ``/opt/py-i.j.k, > or---more likely---``~/opt/py-i.j.k``. *This* is the one where I've > previously made regular use of setuptools and ``easy_install``. If I > break this one somehow, it doesn't foul up my system Python in any > way, and it's easy to scrap it and start anew if I like. > > So, I'd like to get my *system* Python back to its "fresh out of the > Ubuntu showroom" condition and remove *that* setuptools. > > As an aside, I'm a bit struck by how long the setuptools/easy_install > manuals are, and a bit dismayed at the lack of an easy_install > uninstall command. Thinking of trying life for a while without > setuptools/easy_install. Will have to see how far I get. :) To *long* manuals? So far I haven't heard that complaint in the FOSS world... Diez Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
