On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Ubuntu, I accidentally manually installed setuptools >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.6c9 (by running the .egg file >> as a shell script via sudo), and now realize I should just be using >> apt to take care of my system Python packages. > > Really, why? setuptools has more Python packages/programs available > and updates faster than Debian. > It's also likely that some of the Debian Python packages are installed > using setuptools anyway. > So, why do you think apt and not setuptools is The Right Way(tm)?
Setuptools is certainly not the right way to install packages system-wide on debian, it is very likely to break the whole thing. dpkg is a real package installer, with uninstallation feature, correct dependency handling: if you start installing things with setuptools there, dpkg cannot know anymore how to manage your system. That's why it is generally a very bad idea to install things which are not managed by dpkg in /usr - be it python or something else BTW. It is a much better practice to install from source into /usr/local, or your $HOME, etc... Anywhere which is not /usr. David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
