On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> wrote: > David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:49 PM, <excor...@gmail.com> 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.
Depends what you mean by would do the job: rather rough certainly does not mean "would do the job" for something as essential as a package IMO. > > The .deb would then be uninstallable in the usual (dpkg --purge) way. > > Did anyone think about that? Yes, there is stddeb which does that (make a .deb package from a setuptools package). > > easy_install can do that I think... Not without a lot of hoola, unfortunately; for example, it breaks stow, so I have to use specialy scripts to circumvent the damn thing and make it what I tell him to do. I never understood what's easy about easy install: it is broken in so many ways, and has caused me so many pains - even when I was not using - that I do not trust it at all. I only use it to download packages (and even then it manage to fail more than work), and always install them from setup.py afterwards (at which step I of course also have to circumvent setuptools if the package uses setuptools). cheers, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
