On 2025-04-18 13:24:28 +1200, Greg Ewing via Python-list wrote: > On 18/04/25 9:41 am, Mats Wichmann wrote: > > There's just not a really great answer to this. > > Seems to me a system-installed application shouldn't be looking in the > user's .local packages in the first place. That should only be for things > the user has installed "for this user".
It's not the application that looks into .local, it's Python. If you say
that a system-installed Python shouldn't look into ~/.local, then you've
just disabled that mechanism completely. If not then Python would
somehow have to distinguish between system-installed and user-installed
scripts. This isn't as easy as checking whether the path starts with
/usr/bin or whether it belongs to root. Tying into the system's package
manager doesn't look appealing to me (not to mention that it might be
unacceptably slow).
hjp
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