David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
It wouldn't be too difficult to make a .deb target which would collect all the files that did get installed into a package. It would be a rather rough and ready package but would do the job. The .deb would then be uninstallable in the usual (dpkg --purge) way. Did anyone think about that? There is a bdist_rpm target for distutils which I often use then use alien to turn into a .deb. easy_install is a lot easier though! > 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. Agreed. > 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. easy_install can do that I think... I find it odd that easy_install doesn't have a) a list what you installed with easy_install b) uninstall in an otherwise excellent program. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
