[Python-Dev] Order that site-packages is added to sys.path (original) (raw)

Greg Ward gward@python.net
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:17:52 -0500

On 12 February 2002, Jeremy Hylton said:

Why don't you use "--root /usr/local/lib/python2.2" and really override the standard library?

No: --root just lets you replace / with something else. It's mainly so you can build an RPM (eg.) without being superuser. Your example would install to /usr/local/lib/python2.2/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages ...which is probably not what you meant.

The distutils install command is pretty flexible; if someone cares to sit down and figure it out, I'm sure this is possible. It's just not documented or obvious.

    Greg

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