[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB) (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Nov 28 21:11:57 CET 2006

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On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Mike Orr wrote:

On 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

For distros like Gentoo or Ubuntu that rely heavily on their own system Python for the OS to work properly, I'm quite loathe to install Cheeseshop packages into the system site-packages. I've had Gentoo break occasionally when I did this for example (though I don't remember the details now), so I always end up installing my own /usr/ local/bin/python and installing my 3rd party packages into there. Even though site-packages is last on sys.path, installing 3rd party packages can still break the OS if the system itself installs incompatible versions of such packages into its site-packages. One wishes distro vendors would install a separate copy of Python for their internal OS stuff so that broken-library or version issues wouldn't affect the system. That would be worth putting into the standard.

Agreed. But that would just eliminate one potential source of
"application" conflict (defining the OS itself as just another
application).

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